QDesign To Provide Advanced Scalable Audio Technology To IntertrustÆ And Metatrust-Certifiedô Audio Applications

InterTrustÆ Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: ITRU), the MetaTrust Utilityô, and QDesign Corporation, a leading provider of digital audio compression technologies, announced a technology partnership for the use of QDesign's audio codec technology in MetaTrust-Certified(tm) audio applications. The partnership is aimed at developing a digital rights management (DRM) enabled, scalable audio format for digital streaming applications. Further, QDesign and InterTrust will work together to integrate DRM technology into the Windows version of the recently released MVP audio/video player, a cross-platform (for MacOS and Windows) software application for recording and playback of digital music and videos. Adding the QDesign high quality, scalable audio code to the growing list of DRM-enabled audio formats (MP3, AAC, and others) will result in more digital music commerce options for music player companies, content owners and consumers. Music player companies will have more DRM-enabled development options. Content owners will have extensive control over how their music content is promoted, licensed, and sold without the need to re-purpose content each time new distribution and business models are introduced. Consumers will have greater choice in DRM-enabled music players as InterTrust and QDesign work to integrate DRM into the audio capabilities of the MVP application, with the goal of becoming a MetaTrust-Certified audio application. The QDesign Music codec is optimized to produce high quality audio at data rates as low as 1 kilobit per second. The combination of scalability and quality of the latest QDesign audio technology allows a single encoded source file to serve a broad range of music products and services, from music download to personalized streaming Internet radio. The ""on-the-fly"" scalability allows QDesign encoded audio to automatically fit to available storage (i.e., up to 5 times more audio than standard MP3 files on portable music players) as well as dynamically adapt to available bandwidth for Internet streaming. ""InterTrust provides the most comprehensive DRM technology for all digital content types,"" said Richard J. Beaton, President, QDesign Corporation. ""By integrating InterTrust DRM with the scalability of the QDesign audio technology, we are providing content owners with the most robust system for creating, promoting, and delivering digital music around e-commerce."" ""InterTrust seeks to provide the broadest selection of codec technology support for audio and video possible,"" said Talal Shamoon, Senior Vice President, Media, InterTrust Technologies Corporation. ""The QDesign audio codec technology offers a level of scalability quality and control that elegantly complements the InterTrust DRM platform. The combination of technologies presents content owners and consumers an innovative array of options for new music products and services, using existing and emerging delivery mechanisms.""About QDesign CorporationFrom the release of the world's first real-time MP2 audio compression software in 1996 to the introduction of its own MP3 and QDesign Music technologies, QDesign has established itself as the leading provider of the most advanced audio compression solutions in the broadcast, new media and Internet delivery markets. Since the inclusion of the QDesign Music Codec in Apple QuickTime as the audio compression solution for Internet streaming, multimedia authoring and digital music, QDesign has received numerous industry accolades for delivering the best web audio technology. Last fall, the company introduced digital music to the masses with ""MVP"", the first software application for creating and managing the most complete range of music and video formats on both Mac OS and Windows platforms. Today, QDesign's audio technologies appear in hardware processors, digital audio production, automation and distribution systems as well as consumer multimedia software. QDesign is a founding member of the Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI), the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) organization for developing solutions to protect content owners rights for managing access and distribution of their content. About Digital Rights Management (DRM)Digital rights management (DRM) technologies protect and manage rights and interests in digital information. InterTrust's DRM platform provides a common foundation for distributed e-commerce digital information and event management. In the content industry, this allows authors, publishers, enterprises, governments, users and others to specify, as appropriate, rules regarding the use of digital information, and the consequences resulting from such use. InterTrust technology is designed to protect digital information, apply rules persistently after information is distributed, and automate many e-commerce processes related to content use. InterTrust's DRM platform is general purpose and manages most media and content types, including music, publications, business information, video, games, software, and images. InterTrust DRM is enhanced by its use in the MetaTrust Utility, a non-discriminatory, policy neutral, global environment for digital commerce.About InterTrust Technologies CorporationInterTrust Technologies Corporation is the leading developer of distributed digital rights management (DRM) technology. InterTrust has developed a general purpose DRM platform that serves as a foundation for providers of digital information, technology, and commerce services. InterTrust licenses its DRM platform as software and tools to partners. Collectively, these partners offer digital commerce services and applications that form a global commerce system branded as the ""MetaTrust Utility."" InterTrust serves as the neutral administrator of the MetaTrust environment.

For more information, visit the QDesign Web site at http://www.qdesign.com, and the InterTrust Technologies Corporation Web site at http://www.intertrust.com.