Media Rights Technologies targets Apple and other companies under DMCA
May 11th, 2007 Leave a comment Visited 86 times, 2 so far today
Media Rights Technologies targets Apple and other companies under DMCA
Media Rights Technologies (MRT) are the developers of technology which prevent users from ripping digital media streams.
The company has now filed a Cease and Desist letter against Apple and some other companies for violations of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and intellectual property law.
They are specifically targeting Vista, Adobe Flash Player, Real Player, iTunes and the iPod saying that these products have been made “without regard for the DMCA or the rights of American Intellectual Property owners.”
MRT is saying that the DMCA law makes it illegal to manufacture products that are designed to circumvent copy protection.
They are asking in their motion that these companies should stop production or sale of products that infringe on the DMCA. MRT further said that their X1 SeCure Recording Control has proven effective against stream ripping but the products made by these companies are avoiding the use of MRT’s technologies.
MRT CEO Hank Risan added in his statement: “Together these four companies are responsible for 98 percent of the media players in the marketplace; CNN, NPR, Clear Channel, MySpace Yahoo and YouTube all use these infringing devices to distribute copyrighted works. We will hold the responsible parties accountable. The time of suing John Doe is over.”
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June 4th, 2007 at 3:31 am
At first you might say,”What a joke.” But, then, when you read the actual wording of the DMCA you see where MRT is coming from. Section 1201: Circumvention of copyright protection systems(a) Violations Regarding Circumvention of Technological Measures(A) No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title. MRT’s Secure X1 Recording Control is the only technology which effectively controls access to content. All of the companies involved have known about MRT’s technology for some time, years in some cases. But, no one has licensed the technology. They have all circumvented the use of a technological measure that would effectively control access to content. How a federal judge interprets this case remains to be seen, but, MRT does have a case.