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Cdigix Announces Launches for Fall at Purdue, Tulane, Establishing Company as the Leading Online Media Provider to College Market
[September 15, 2004]

Cdigix Announces Launches for Fall at Purdue, Tulane, Establishing Company as the Leading Online Media Provider to College Market

DENVER --(Business Wire)-- Sept. 15, 2004 -- Purdue and Tulane Students Now Have Legit Access to Music, Video Content Downloads

Cdigix, the leading provider of digital entertainment and educational media curriculum for college campuses, announced today that it has signed two additional college campuses, Purdue University and Tulane University, that will offer legal downloads of high-quality music, video and educational course materials to their respective students. These two educational institutions join Cdigix's existing roster of participating schools that include Marietta College, Ohio University, the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), the University of Denver, Wake Forest and Yale University. The Company now reaches more than 200,000 students at its eight schools and will announce several additional universities in the coming weeks.



Media services that will be available at these new schools starting this fall include: Ctrax, featuring nearly one million legally downloadable songs through a partnership with MusicNet, the leading online music service provider; Cflix, for broadcast quality video on-demand from leading film and TV content providers; Clabs, for educational media services providing access to required and supplemental course materials; and Cvillage, the Company's outlet for campus media distribution and community interaction. Cdigix conferred with each school to tailor its services to meet individual campus needs and is now working with these and several other educational institutions to roll out services for the 2004-2005 school year.

"Cdigix is thrilled to be working with Purdue and Tulane, two of the premier higher education institutions in the United States," said Brett Goldberg, president of Cdigix. "We are also excited to expand on the leadership we have established in the college marketplace as it relates to the distribution of entertainment and educational media to campuses."


"We are pleased to be providing these services to our students starting this fall," said Steve Hare, associate vice president for security and privacy at Purdue University. "We had a very involved selection process for evaluating digital media partners and, in the end, we selected Cdigix because of its experience in the college marketplace and the diversified offerings it can provide our students."

Cdigix focuses exclusively on the college market, and provides a suite of services targeted specifically for this audience. Standard Cdigix prices for campus students are $2.99 for unlimited tethered access to nearly one million music tracks with a Ctrax music service monthly subscription, or individual song downloads for 89 cents. Cflix entertainment programming will be available under a subscription model for $9.99 per month and $3.99 or $1.99 for individual movies on a pay-per-view basis. Clabs educational course curriculum is free to enrolled students, giving them convenient access to video and audio media content required to fulfill their coursework via their own computer, versus making a trip to the central campus Audio/Video lab. Cvillage is currently a complementary service to student users of Cdigix.

Cdigix is working in collaboration with industry leaders in the music, movie, education and technology sectors to promote its offerings to schools and students as a legal and cost effective way to access music, movie and educational media. MusicNet provides Ctrax with a subscription service and download store featuring nearly one million tracks, original programming, playlists and other features. In establishing this agreement, Cdigix and the schools also worked closely with the Campus Action Network (CAN), an initiative dedicated to facilitating the introduction of safe, legitimate digital music services to the campus environment. CAN, which is led by Sony BMG Music Entertainment and other record companies, works with a wide range of legitimate online music services, and helps institutions to create programs that uniquely fit their needs, as well as the needs of their student bodies.

About Cdigix

Since 2002, Cdigix has delivered customized packages featuring legal music (Ctrax), video on demand programming (Cflix) and educational media (Clabs) to colleges and universities. Cdigix works with leading commercial entertainment companies and universities to provide customized music, movie and educational services to college students via institutions' internal IP infrastructures. The company is headquartered in Englewood, Colo. More information can be found at www.cdigix.com.

About Campus Action Network:

Campus Action Network (CAN) is a music industry-wide effort led by Sony BMG Music Entertainment and other record companies. CAN's principal objective is to ensure that students have access to safe, legitimate digital music services, and it is working to support the launch of legitimate music services on campuses around the country. CAN provides universities with introductions, information and support on a broad array of online music services. CAN does not recommend or endorse any one service or technology to institutions.

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