Digital Media On Demand, Inc. Enters Into Licensing Agreement With Earjam.com To Enable The Earjam Internet Music Player.Business/Technology Editors ALLSTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 12, 2000 - Allows Secure Downloads of Digital Music with Advanced Functionality for End-User Benefit - Digital Media On Demand, Inc. (DMOD DMOD Dynamic Module (Microsoft) DMOD Dink Smallwood Module DMOD Data Modeling DMOD Dynamic Address Module ), a leading provider of digital content encryption, distribution and flexible rights-management technologies, today announced an agreement with Earjam.com, which enables the company's popular Earjam IMP(TM) (Internet Music Player), to use DMOD technology to provide a secure method of content distribution. This partnership, the third in what is anticipated to be a series of such agreements with multimedia players, builds on the momentum created by the recent announcements of DMOD enabling Lycos' Sonique Media Player and UltraCo's UltraPlayer. DMOD's client software will give the Earjam IMP the most comprehensive tools available to secure files for the benefit of Earjam customers. DMOD is working to capture part of the projected $2 billion online music market (Forrester Research Forrester Research is an independent technology and market research company that provides its clients with advice about technology's impact on business and consumers. Corporate facts
"DMOD's technology was attractive to Earjam because it allows us to offer, to those customers that desire it, a secure method of downloading music, both for their privacy and for the protection of artists and the labels," said Dave Ulmer Dave Ulmer came up with the concept of the GPS Stash Hunt (now called geocaching) and introduced it to the world on May 2, 2000, the day after President Clinton turned off Selective Availability (SA), the intentional degradation of the Global Positioning System (GPS) signals , President and Chief Executive Officer of Earjam.com. "DMOD technology means not only added security, but added functionality - and this furthers Earjam's goal of answering all possible consumer needs." DMOD offers unique technologies for digital content creators, distributors and gatekeepers. The company's strength is its unparalleled encryption technology. Working with NTRU NTRU Native Title Research Unit (AIATSIS) NTRU Number Theorists R Us NTRU N-Th Degree Truncated Polynomial Ring Cryptosystems, Inc., creators of the world's fastest public key cryptography An encryption method that uses a two-part key: a public key and a private key. To send an encrypted message to someone, you use the recipient's public key, which can be sent to you via regular e-mail or made available on any public Web site or venue. system, DMOD has become the only company encrypting files "on the fly." Their patent-pending multiple key encryption technology offers content developers the ability to mark and protect up to one key per second per digital file for enhanced security, making illegal use virtually impossible and extremely time consuming. With more music being distributed via the Internet, file security and consumer privacy have become extremely important issues to record labels, producers and artists. "The momentum created by DMOD's agreements with Earjam and others show that the control of a piece of content is of the utmost importance to leading providers of digital media in the Internet space and they are approaching DMOD to provide unparalleled technology while maintaining seamless user experience," said Executive Vice President of Business Development Brett Fasullo. "We are confident that we will be able to continue to provide the best solutions available to continue forging new, exciting partnerships." Earjam.com's new IMP software provides music fans with a direct connection to the music and artists they like, while making it easy to find, download, play and burn music off the Net. The Earjam IMP is the world's first free universal player/burner that solves the problem of conflicting music file formats, security measures Noun 1. security measures - measures taken as a precaution against theft or espionage or sabotage etc.; "military security has been stepped up since the recent uprising" security and hardware standards, by supporting all popular formats and hardware devices. Users can play MP3s, Windows Media Microsoft's audio and video framework for Windows, which embraces playback, encoding and streaming. Windows Media Player is the digital jukebox and media player that comes with every version of Windows. files, audio CDs, plus over a dozen additional formats, and transfer their music to popular devices such as the Diamond RIO This article is about the american country band. For the MP3 player brand, see Rio (digital audio players). Diamond Rio is an American country music band formed in 1984 in Nashville, Tennessee. and Creative Nomad The NOMAD was a range of digital audio players designed and sold by Creative Technology, and later discontinued in 2004. Subsequent players now fall exclusively under the MuVo and ZEN brands. , as well as burn CDs they can play in any standard CD player. The Earjam IMP automatically handles all downloading, ripping, unlocking and transcoding, without requiring any user interaction or technical knowledge. The consumer simply selects the music they want and sends it to the desired device. The Earjam IMP is the only free software with unlimited, high-quality burning capability supporting virtually any CD-Recorder. In addition to free burning, the Earjam IMP includes unlimited ripping to the Windows Media file format at the highest quality and near-CD-quality MP3 encoding. Users can even store and manage their digital music using the 3 gigabytes of myplay.com locker space they get for free when they download the Earjam IMP. About Earjam.com Founded in October 1999, by executives from the CD-Recording and Internet software application markets, Earjam.com, Inc. (http://www.earjam.com) is a privately held corporation Noun 1. privately held corporation - a corporation owned by a few people; shares have no public market close corporation, closed corporation, private corporation and a leading supplier of Internet music software and services to the online music market. Earjam.com is an active member of SDMI (Secure Digital Music Initiative) A set of rules for securely distributing digital music over the Internet. Announced in February 1999, it is backed by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and Sony, Warner, BMG, EMI and Universal, the top five , the Secure Digital Music Initiative Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI) was a forum formed in late 1998, comprised of more than 200 IT, consumer electronics, security technology, ISP and recording industry companies, ostensibly with the purpose of developing technology specifications that protected the , and DiMA, the Digital Media Association, and is dedicated to making it easy for mainstream music consumers to find, download, play and burn music off the Net. Earjam.com has distribution or technology agreements with EMusic.com, INTERVU, Oak Technology, Inc., MP3.com, Mitsumi, Thomson/Fraunhofer IIS (Internet Information Services) Microsoft's Web server. IIS runs under the server versions of Windows, adding HTTP server capability to the Windows operating system. , QSound, CDDB (CD DataBase) An online music database service from Gracenote, Emeryville, CA (www.gracenote.com). Developed in the mid-1990s by Ti Kan and Steve Sherf and officially known as MusicID, the CDDB is widely used to find album and song titles for the tracks on a CD. , Microsoft Corporation, Diamond Multimedia, Epitonic, CDNow, The Orchard, Muze, myplay.com, EZCD.com and Creative Technologies. About DMOD Digital Media On Demand, Inc. (DMOD) is a leader in digital content encryption, distribution and flexible rights-management technologies. DMOD's unique security technology boasts the highest level of encryption available, allowing digital content providers to effectively and safely distribute content via the Internet. The only company encrypting files "on the fly," DMOD's multiple key encryption technology offers content developers the ability to mark and protect up to one key per second for enhanced security, making illegal use virtually impossible and extremely time consuming. Based in Allston, Mass., the privately-held company was founded in 1996. DMOD is funded by Greylock, a venture capital firm who has helped launch over 250 companies since 1965 including Red Hat Software, Open Market, Ascend Communications and SightPath. For more information on DMOD, visit www.dmod.com. |
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