Media Rights Technologies Launches, Powers Streaming Music Service

The DRM and music distribution vendor Music Public Broadcasting relaunched itself as Media Rights Technologies (MRT) today. The company offers some proprietary DRM technologies, including one for audio called X1 Recording Control, which it claims works with any file format and playback technology, protects against several different forms of transcoding and stream capture, and supports Superdistribution, thereby allowing files to be shared on a P2P network with compensation to rights holders at each step. ¶ X1 Recording Control is used in the company's BlueBeat music service, which was also relaunched. BlueBeat is a paid subscription streaming radio service that offers over 300 different channels and very high sampling rates of 160 or 320 kbps, which approach CD quality sound. ... DRM Watch link