Submitted by Webitpr:
Macrovision Provides Secure
Internet Delivery Of Games For Boonty
Boonty, one of Europe's leading online games
distributors, announced today that it has teamed with Macrovision Corporation,
the leading provider of copy protection and digital rights management
technologies, to protect games distributed through portals such as Yahoo!
T-online, Tiscali, Wanadoo and Virgin.
Boonty provides downloadable games sites for major
portals and deals with leading games publishers such as Ubi Soft, Atari,
Acclaim, Kuju and Hachette. It is widely recognised that adequate security is
essential for publishers to allow their products to be distributed over the
internet.
Macrovision Corporation provides a unique universal
licensing solution with its FLEXnet suite of products.
FLEXnet's Product Activation technology, as used by
Boonty, controls piracy and unlicensed use without inconveniencing end users.
The technology safeguards a wide range of eCommerce and Electronic Software
Distribution solutions by preventing unauthorized copying whilst managing
subscriptions and rentals of software. Products can be delivered via any digital
medium, at the same time allowing the retailer or the software owner to retain
complete control over how and when products (in this case games) can be
unlocked.
Mathieu Nouzareth, President of Boonty explains why
the FLEXnet solution from Macrovision was chosen: 'We believe that computer
games are becoming an active and profitable on-line market and that effective
digital rights management is essential to its continued growth. Quite simply,
rights holders have to be confident that their products are adequately protected
before they will allow their products to be sold on-line. It was vital to select
a partner that we trust in terms of technical capability, performance and market
leadership. FLEXnet fitted the bill in terms of versatility and security.
Macrovision also provides the reassurance of substantial resources dedicated to
continually improving their products and a track record that points to continued
commercial success."
About Macrovision
Macrovision Corporation (Nasdaq:MVSN) is the market leader in
electronic licensing, copy protection and digital rights management ("DRM")
technologies. Macrovision FLEXnet™, the world's first universal licensing
platform, enables customers to easily price, package and protect their software.
More than 3000 software publishers have shipped FLEXenabled software, and
hundreds of Fortune 1000 companies use Macrovision technologies to better manage
their software licenses. The company holds over 700 software licensing and DRM
patents worldwide and has been ranked by Business 2.0 as one of the top 100 Tech
Companies for two consecutive years. Headquartered in Santa Clara, California,
Macrovision has international offices in London, Frankfurt, Tel Aviv, Tokyo,
Taipei, Hong Kong and Seoul. More information about Macrovision can be found at
www.macrovision.com.
About Boonty
Boonty is a unique middleware application platform
with an integrated video game catalogue of rights-negotiated video games
targeted at the major internet traffic portals. By integrating a Boonty
while-branded solution these portals quickly become operational in downloaded
Video Game sales. Boonty is the only full integrated solution dedicated to
downloading video games. Its extremely flexible technology and catalogue
have already attracted many partners such as Yahoo! Europe, T-online, Wanadoo,
Tiscali, Virgin.
Source: webitpr
