Independent Music Giant, KOCH Records, Inks an Agreement to Use SunnComm's MediaMax M4 Copy Management Technology.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 1, 2004 SunnComm's exclusive marketing subsidiary, QuietTiger, delivers the KOCH Records Koch Records, the primary subsidiary of Koch Entertainment LP, is an independent record label in the United States. It is also distributed by the Universal Music Group in Europe and in Asia under the name Koch Universal. deal via its strategic alliance with Sonopress, LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control QuietTiger Inc. (OTCBB OTCBB See OTC Bulletin Board (OTCBB). :QTIG), the worldwide sales and marketing subsidiary of SunnComm International (OTC OTC See: Over-the-counter. OTC See over-the-counter market (OTC). :SCMI SCMI Southern California Marine Institute (Terminal Island, CA) SCMI Supply Chain Management Institute SCMI South Carolina Military Institute ), announced today that its largest reseller of copy management technology, Sonopress, LLC., (www.sonopress.com/us) has assisted in landing this licensing agreement with independent music giant KOCH Records (www.kochrecords.com). The teams from Quiet Tiger and Sonopress have worked diligently to finalize the deal with New York-based KOCH Records for use of the MediaMax Music Management System on its distributed releases. KOCH Records is the fastest-growing independent record company in the U.S. and Canada, and has had more Billboard charting albums than any other independent record company in 2002 and 2003. KOCH Records has been referred to as the sixth major label within the music industry. The contract with KOCH Records is one of many revenue deals to come as a result of the strategic alliance between QuietTiger and Sonopress. QuietTiger has the exclusive rights to represent the SunnComm International's MediaMax product line of digital content security and enhancement products for the music and entertainment industry. Sonopress, LLC is an established authorized service provider An Authorized Service Provider (ASP) is a third party person that has been cleared to work on a product that is still under warranty by another company without voiding the warranty. and a reseller for the MediaMax technology platform to all independent labels. Sonopress is one of the largest and most successful optical disc replicators with manufacturing capabilities throughout the world. "We are proud to be representing the SunnComm MediaMax solution to our customers worldwide," said Scott Wilker, Sonopress' VP of Business Development. "The product's performance has exceeded all expectations in every aspect of the production process. Our international sales effort and representation of MediaMax will help establish this product as an industry standard that can be embraced by the artists, record labels, manufacturers, and most importantly Adv. 1. most importantly - above and beyond all other consideration; "above all, you must be independent" above all, most especially , consumers." "CD piracy is an issue that the music industry can't ignore. We won't apologize for protecting our artists' music," declared Bob Frank, president of KOCH Records. Mr. Frank continued, "We were looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. a proven technology which deters piracy and we have found that in the MediaMax product. It was a paramount goal for our organization to provide a reliable copy management and enhancement product for digital audio CDs that works on all consumer electronic devices and PC systems around the world. We were looking for a product solution that provided the consumer with enhanced features on their PC's thereby improving the value proposition of the audio CD." David Nives, the Senior Director of Production and Catalog Development for KOCH Records stated, "The decision for KOCH Records to utilize MediaMax on our distributed releases was reinforced by the successful utilization of this product in the marketplace. We were impressed with the SunnComm development team and their extraordinary emphasis on delivering a positive consumer experience. One of our distributed labels, DIC DIC diffuse intravascular coagulation; disseminated intravascular coagulation. DIC abbr. disseminated intravascular coagulation Disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) Entertainment, utilized MediaMax for the recently completed Strawberry Shortcake
Strawberry Shortcake is a licensed character owned by American Greetings, originally used in greeting cards and expanded to include dolls, posters, and other products. project. We were provided with some very impressive empirical data collected by industry contacts on MediaMax commercial releases. We believe the MediaMax technology can help us achieve the balance and results we are looking for with content management and enhancement. We are looking forward to working with the QuietTiger, SunnComm and Sonopress teams for years to come." QuietTiger's president, Bill Whitmore commented, "The joint sales and marketing effort between Sonopress and QuietTiger has really paid off. We as a team are well positioned to offer all clients a total solution for content management, manufacturing, packaging and distribution. It is an honor to work with KOCH Records and its growing family of distributed labels. Our goal is to make MediaMax enhanced CDs the most popular copy management and enhancement product in the world." SunnComm's MediaMax suite of products delivers security for digital audio along with an enhanced consumer experience. It provides additional bonus content and value-added features available in a user-friendly multi-media session that is mastered on the audio CD and accessible using a personal computer. Bonus features include artist-related promotions, videos, song lyrics, artist bio pages, photo galleries, web links and tune sharing capability through the MusicMail(TM) functionality. The MusicMail technology platform allows consumers to legally share music with friends in an authorized manner. MusicMail provides the recipient with a song that can be downloaded and listened to for a limited number of days, a limited number of plays or until a specific expiration date Expiration Date The day on which an options or futures contract is no longer valid and, therefore, ceases to exist. Notes: The expiration date for all listed stock options in the U.S. arrives. This allows consumers to share music while respecting the copyrights of the artists by sending legal and licensed music tracks instead of unauthorized copies. ABOUT KOCH RECORDS KOCH Records is a division of KOCH Entertainment Koch Entertainment LP is a North American entertainment company with offices in New York, Nashville and Toronto. It is also distributed by the Universal Music Group in Europe and in Asia under the name Koch Universal. , the fastest-growing music company and the market leader among independents in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . The KOCH Entertainment corporate umbrella encompasses the KOCH Records label, KOCH Vision home video, KOCH Music Publishing The contractual relationship between a songwriter or music composer and a music publisher, whereby the writer assigns part or all of his or her music copyrights to the publisher in exchange for the publisher's commercial exploitation of the music. and KOCH Entertainment Distribution (KED) with operations in both the U.S. and Canada. KOCH Records proudly claims the largest number of Billboard charting albums among independents for each of the last three years (2001-2003). For additional info on the KOCH Records label and its roster of artists, please visit www.kochrecords.com ABOUT QUIETTIGER QuietTiger, Inc. (OTCBB:QTIG) with its international reach, implements the delivery of digital content security products for the music and entertainment industry. With established long term contacts throughout the world, QuietTiger understands the challenges surrounding digital content management and protection. Our team of professionals has spent more than 50 years in the music and movie industry. For additional information about the company, its vision, philosophy, partners, and customers, please visit the Company's Web site at www.quiettiger.com or contact: Company Contact: Investor Contact: Media Contact: William H. Whitmore, Jr. Kimberly Faulkner George Medici 602-267-3800 602-267-3800 646-295-8218 bill@quiettiger.com Kimberly@quiettiger.com gmedici@att.net ABOUT SONOPRESS The Sonopress Group (www.sonopress.com/us) is the leading international provider of value-added outsourced services to a broad range of customers in the music, film/video, publishing, games and computer industries. As the world's second largest optical disc replicator See port replicator. replicator - Any construct that acts to produce copies of itself; this could be a living organism, an idea (see meme), a program (see quine, worm, wabbit, fork bomb, and virus), a pattern in a cellular automaton (see life), or (speculatively) a robot or , we offer all services around CD, CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc. CD-ROM in full compact disc read-only memory Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser). , DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. and cassettes. Sonopress' mission is to add value by managing customers supply chain requirements and take publishers content to market. Our E-Service Solutions assist our clients in developing secure music on demand and electronic software distribution models as well as financial clearing for the internet. With 3,500 employees worldwide, Sonopress runs manufacturing operations in Europe (6), North and South America (7), Africa (1) and Asia (4). ABOUT SUNNCOMM SunnComm Technologies Inc. (OTC:SCMI) copy management and protection technology was commercially released by Nashville's Music City records in 2001. The album, "Charley Pride -- A Tribute to Jim Reeves," became the first commercial copy-managed CD in America. SunnComm also became the first company to commercially release a content-protected audio CD utilizing an early version of the Windows Media Data Session Toolkit. (http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2003/jan03/ 01-20SessionToolkitPR.asp) (Due to the length of this URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. , it may be necessary to copy and paste To copy files from one location to another or to copy text and images from one document to another. All modern operating systems and applications have a copy and paste capability that is typically selected from an Edit menu. See cut and paste and Win Copy between windows. it into your Internet browser's URL address field. You may also need to remove an extra space in the URL if one exists.) It is a leader in digital content enhancement and security technology for optical media with its MediaMax suite of products, and today leads the US market in copy managed audio CDs. SunnComm's MediaMax M4(TM) suite of Digital Content Enhancement technologies are built using Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT MSFT Microsoft (stock symbol) MSFT Movimento Sociale Fiamma Tricolore (Italy) MSFT Multi-Stage Fitness Test MSFT Master of Science in Family Therapy MSFT Macalester Students for Fair Trade ) Windows Media 9 Series but operates on both Apple (Nasdaq:AAPL AAPL Apple Computer, Inc. (stock symbol) AAPL American Association of Professional Landmen AAPL American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law AAPL Advance Audiovisual Presentation Limited AAPL Advocates for Arkansas Public Libraries ) and Microsoft Windows-based systems (Nasdaq:MSFT). For more detailed information about the company, its vision or philosophy, personnel, partners, and customers, please visit the company's Web site at http://www.sunncomm.com, or call the Company directly at (602) 267-7500. NOTES ABOUT FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS Statements contained in this release, which are not historical facts, may be considered "forward-looking statements" 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. Forward-looking statements are based on current expectations and the current economic environment. We caution the reader that such forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance. 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