Microsoft settles with InterTrust for 440 million dollars. microsoft settles with intertrust for 440 million dollars. Microsoft agreed to pay 440 million dollars to InterTrust Technologies to settle a dispute over anti-piracy technology for digital music and video, the firms announced. Microsoft agreed to pay 440 million dollars to InterTrust Technologies to settle a dispute over anti-piracy technology for digital music and video, the firms announced....

In settling with InterTrust Technologies, Microsoft could be gaining a big advantage in the growing market for distributing music and videos online - to the detriment of competitors who now risk getting caught in InterTrust patent squabbles of their own. In settling with InterTrust Technologies, Microsoft could be gaining a big advantage in the growing market for distributing music and videos online - to the detriment of competitors who now risk getting caught in InterTrust patent squabbles of their own....

Other technology and media companies participating in the initiative include Abril Group, Accenture, Adobe Systems, Anystream, America Online, Artesia Technologies, Avid Technology, Bertelsmann, British Telecom's BTopenworld, Clear Channel, Context Media, EMI Recorded Music, eMotion, IBM, IFILM, InterTrust, MGM, Napster (those turncoats), Rightsline, Sony Pictures Digital Entertainment, Starz......

Philips hopes the so-called digital rights management (DRM) system being developed by Intertrust, which it jointly owns with Japan’s Sony Corp., will replace a confusing array of proprietary systems."...