InterTrust aims to protect media beyond PC

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InterTrust aims to protect media beyond PC

InterTrust Technologies, one of several companies aiming to build a business out of protecting music, video and other content from digital pirates, is trying to put the PC behind it with a new set of products.

With its latest product release, InterTrust is expanding its services beyond the computer, looking forward to a world where people will get digital music and movies more though wireless devices, home stereos or TV set-top boxes than through personal computers. The company has radically slimmed down its technology to work in devices with only tiny amounts of processing power and storage space.

"We're moving into the living room," said Talal Shamoon, senior vice president at InterTrust. "The PC is not an entertainment device. If the TV crashed as many times in a month as a PC does in a day, we'd throw it out the window."

InterTrust has sued Microsoft, contending that the larger software company has violated the smaller company's patent rights in several instances. Microsoft has not officially responded to the lawsuit.

Source: Cnet.com

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Posted by DanDaMan1487 on Tuesday 24 July 2001 19:05

"The PC is not an entertainment device"

So why are there more PC games than for any other system? No system could ever match the power of a good computer!