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Destiny Announces Strategic Relationship with the McKenna Group.


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VANCOUVER, B.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 6, 2000

Destiny Media Technologies Destiny Media Technologies OTCBB: DSNY is a developer of internet tools for securing and distributing digital media content. History
Destiny Software Productions, Inc.
, Inc. (OTCBB OTCBB

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:DSNY DSNY Department of Sanitation New York
DSNY Desi Sounds of New York (band) 
) is pleased to announce a strategic relationship with the McKenna Group, a Silicon Valley-based consulting firm with expertise in the development of information and telecommunications management, marketing and alliance strategies (http://www.mckenna-group.com). The McKenna Group will broker relationships with Fortune 100 companies, which require media distribution and streaming media tools, and will assist in the development of a strategy for gaining industry adoption of the recently announced MPE MPE
abbr.
Master of Public Education
 format. According to McKenna partner Phillip Gerbert, Destiny suffers from an embarrassment of technological riches: "We are truly excited by the compelling advantages Destiny's products offer over existing solutions, in terms of technological performance as well as user friendliness." Phillip will be heading the initiative with Destiny.

Mr. Gerbert has received a Master's Degree from the Max-Planck Institute in Munich, Germany, a Certificate from Ecole Normale Superieure (body) Ecole Normale Superieure - (ENS) A higher education and research institution in Paris, France.  in Paris, France, and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at Cambridge; coeducational; chartered 1861, opened 1865 in Boston, moved 1916. It has long been recognized as an outstanding technological institute and its Sloan School of Management has notable programs in business,  (MIT MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology ), School of Science.

Steve Vestergaard, Destiny CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board.  comments, "Philip is specially suited to assist us in both our streaming and music distribution initiatives. He is the author of Music - The Prototype for the Digital Economy and Capturing the Value in Broadband Services and has intimate knowledge and relationships with the industries we are targeting."

Regis McKenna, the chairman of the McKenna Group is included in the San Jose Mercury News' Millennium 100 as one of the 100 people who made Silicon Valley what it is today. Mr. McKenna has written and lectured extensively on the social and market effects of technological change advancing innovations in marketing theories and practices.

McKenna helped launch some of the most important technological innovations of the last twenty-five years including the first microprocessor (Intel Corporation), the first personal computer (Apple Computer), the first recombinant DNA recombinant DNA
n.
Genetically engineered DNA prepared by transplanting or splicing one or more segments of DNA into the chromosomes of an organism from a different species. Such DNA becomes part of the host's genetic makeup and is replicated.
 genetically engineered genetically engineered adjective Recombinant, see there  product (Genentech, Inc.), and the first retail computer store (The Byte Shop).

Mr. McKenna and his firm have worked with a number of entrepreneurial start-ups during their formation years including: America On Line (NYSE-AOL), Apple (Nasdaq-AAPL), Compaq (NYSE-CPQ), Electronic Arts (Nasdaq-ERTS), Genentech (NYSE-DNA), Intel (Nasdaq-INTC), Linear Technology (Nasdaq-LLTC), Lotus, Microsoft (Nasdaq-MSFT), National Semiconductor (NYSE-NSM), Silicon Graphics (NYSE-SGI), 3COM (Nasdaq-COMS), and many others. In the last decade, McKenna has consulted on strategic marketing and business issues to firms in the United States, Japan, and Europe. Mr. McKenna continues to be involved in high tech start-up companies through his venture activities.

Destiny Media Technologies, Inc. (http://www.dsny.com ) has developed a suite of enabling tools, which facilitate the distribution of digital media through the Internet in either a streaming or downloadable form.

The RadioDestiny Broadcaster(TM) (http://www.radiodestiny.com) allows a user to broadcast live or scripted audio from a computer to anyone on the Internet. Clipstream(TM) (http://www.clipstream.com) enables web pages to stream audio without the use of a player.

Video Clipstream(TM) (http://www.videoclipstream.com) is a prototype technology for embedding streaming audio into a web page.

The MPE(TM) (http://www.destinympe.com) system provides e-commerce and digital rights management directly from within a multimedia file. MPE (TM) delivers MP3 files in a secure wrapper, and is compatible with existing MP3 infrastructure and devices.

"Safe Harbor" statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and  of 1995: This release contains forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties, including, but not limited to, the impact of competitive products and pricing, product demand and market acceptance, new product development, reliance on key strategic alliances, availability of raw materials, the regulatory environment, fluctuations in operating results and other risks detailed from time to time in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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