The California company Media Rights Technologies announced today that it has sent cease-and-desist letters to Microsoft, Adobe, Real Networks, and Apple, alleging the company’s media player products—like Windows Media Player, QuickTime, iTunes, Real Player, and Flash—violate the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) by (get this) failing to incorporate Media Rights’ Technologies X1 SeCure Recording Control proprietary rights management technology into their products.
“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,” wrote MRT CEO Hank Risan in a statement. “We will hold the responsible parties accountable. The time of suing John Doe is over.”
