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  Deal gives Microsoft a leg up on digital media
Time: 13:24 EST/18:24 GMT | News Source: E-Mail | Posted By: Byron Hinson

In settling with InterTrust Technologies Corp., Microsoft Corp. 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. Microsoft announced Monday it would pay $440 million to InterTrust to settle a 3-year-old patent infringement lawsuit over technology for protecting music, movies and other digital content against piracy.

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