QuietTiger Signs Licensing Deals with MCOM Inc. and Six Degrees Records to Use SunnComm's MediaMax M4 Technology.Entertainment Editors/Business Editors PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 26, 2004 QuietTiger Inc. (OTCBB OTCBB See OTC Bulletin Board (OTCBB). :QTIG, QTIB.BE), an international marketer of digital content security and enhancement products for the music and entertainment industry, announced today that it has signed separate licensing agreements to use MediaMax Music Management System with Tennessee-based CD 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 , Music City Optical Media (MCOMINC) and independent record label Six Degrees Records based in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden . QuietTiger Inc. has the world-wide exclusive sales and marketing rights to represent SunnComm Technologies' MediaMax product line. SunnComm's MediaMax suite of products delivers security for digital audio along with an enhanced consumer experience providing 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 page, photo gallery, web links and tune sharing capability through the MusicMail(TM) functionality. The MusicMail technology platform allows consumers to share music with friends by providing 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number of plays or until a specific expiration date Expiration Date The day on which an options or futures contract is no longer valid and, therefore, ceases to exist.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 with friends in the spirit of sharing as it was intended while respecting the copyrights of the artists by sending legal and licensed music tracks instead of unauthorized copies. QuietTiger's president, Bill Whitmore says, "We're really excited about adding Music City Optical Media and Six Degrees Records to our growing roster of quality companies utilizing SunnComm's MediaMax technology. Our goal is to make the MediaMax CDs the most popular copy management and enhancement technology in the world. We will continue to build our customer base one company at a time and we are looking forward to working with Music City and the team at Six Degrees records." MCOMINC is a full-service facility specializing in the manufacturing and packaging of compact discs, CD-ROMs and DVDs and, by the signing of this agreement, establishes itself as an 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. for the replication and manufacture of MediaMax M4(TM) enhanced CDs. MCOMINC has already successfully completed replication of its first MediaMax enhanced CD project for Concord Records Concord Records is a well-known U.S. jazz record label, based in Beverly Hills, California. Originally known as Concord Jazz, it was established in 1972 as an off-shoot of the Concord Jazz Festival in Concord, California by festival founder Carl Jefferson, a local , an independent label based in California and is preparing to include MediaMax on an additional project with another independent label. Six Degrees Records joins the growing line up of major and independent labels implementing SunnComm's copy management and enhancement technology on their artists' CDs. The first project is currently in production. "We have been searching for an elegant solution to protecting our intellectual property; SunnComm is the answer." states Bob Appel, Vice President A&R and Creative Services Creative Services are a subsector of the creative industries, a part of the economy that creates wealth by offering creativity for hire to other businesses. Examples include:
SunnComm's MediaMax offers the most effective solution available for dealing with the issue of "casual CD piracy" within the music industry. The MediaMax solution helps protect the rights of artists, composers, publishers and labels, and provide consumers with an enhanced audio and visual experience. MediaMax provides complete cross-platform playability and compatibility with existing consumer electronic devices including all CD and DVD players and car stereos. MediaMax M4 is a collection of patent pending technologies that provides copy control for CDs, while simultaneously enhancing and expanding the consumer's entertainment experience. MediaMax is tightly integrated with Microsoft's (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : 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 Microsoft's audio and video framework for Windows, which embraces playback, encoding and streaming. Windows Media Player is the digital jukebox and media player that comes with every version of Windows. Platform and the Digital Rights Management capabilities associated with the latest Windows Media Platforms. SunnComm licenses and uses Windows Media Audio See Windows Media formats. DRM (1) (Digital Radio Mondiale) A digital audio broadcasting (DAB) system for AM radio in Europe. See HD Radio. (2) (Digital Rights M capabilities from Microsoft as the security feature for these multi-media files. ABOUT MCOMINC Music City Optical Media (MCOM MCom Master of Commerce (degree) MCOM Marketing Communications MCOM Mobile Commerce ) is a privately owned and operated company that has been serving the music, publishing, educational, technology and communications industries since 1974. MCOM is a full service facility, specializing in the manufacturing and packaging of Compact Discs, CD-ROMs and DVDs, as well as audio and video cassettes. The company also offers support services support services Psychology Non-health care-related ancillary services–eg, transportation, financial aid, support groups, homemaker services, respite services, and other services including warehousing, distribution and order fulfillment Order fulfillment (in BE also: order fulfilment) is in the most general sense the complete process from point of sales inquiry to delivery of a product to the customer. Sometimes Order fulfillment for the products they manufacture. ABOUT CONCORD RECORDS Concord Records is widely regarded as one of the preeminent record companies in the industry today, committed to offering the adult music audience inspiring, innovative and high quality recordings of jazz and popular music. With a family of labels that now includes several key partnerships and imprints, Concord has amassed a catalog of over 1,000 discrete albums by an ever-expanding roster of world-class vocal and instrumental artists, consisting of more than 10,000 recordings of individual songs. Concord has garnered numerous awards and accolades, including 88 Grammy(R) Award nominations and 14 Grammy(R) Awards. ABOUT SIX DEGREES RECORDS Six Degrees is an eclectic, independent music label that produces and markets genre-bending, accessible recordings that explore world music, ambient, folk, contemporary classical and intelligent pop music. Through consistency of quality, distinctive visual presentation and creative and aggressive marketing, we strive to create releases that stand out from the pack and offer a real alternative to consumers who are looking to discover new sounds from around the world. ABOUT QUIETTIGER QuietTiger, Inc., a fully reporting public company that currently trades on the OTC Bulletin Board OTC Bulletin Board An electronic quotation listing of the bid and asked prices of OTC stocks that do not meet the requirements to be listed on the NASDAQ stock-listing system. under the symbol "QTIG", is an international sales and marketing group representing the implementation and delivery of digital content security products for the music and entertainment industry. The team of sales and marketing professionals has over 50 years of experience in the music, movie and entertainment industry, and has established relationships around the world that will enable the penetration of our product lines into each targeted market segment. ABOUT SUNNCOMM SunnComm Technologies, Inc. became the first company to commercially release a content-protected audio CD utilizing an early version of the Windows Media Data Session Toolkit. SunnComm's copy-management technology was commercially released by Music City records in 2001 which became America's first copy-protected audio CD. It has become a leader in digital content enhancement and security technology for optical media with its MediaMax M4 suite of products. SunnComm's MediaMax M4 Suite of Digital Content Enhancement technologies are built using Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) Windows Media 9 Series but operate 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 Windows-based systems. For more detailed information about the company, its vision or philosophy, personnel, partners, and customers, please visit the company's Web site at www.sunncomm.com, or call the company directly at (602) 267-7500, and ask for shareholder relations. MediaMax Digital Content Cloaking Technology, DC2, PromoPlay, TuneShare, MusicMail, Secure-Burn and SunnComm are registered and/or trademarks of SunnComm Technologies, Inc., in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and/or other countries. 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