New General Manager Brings Greater Focus to Roxio's Enterprise Software Business

Milpitas, California - (November 7, 2001) - Roxio, Inc. (Nasdaq:ROXI), The Digital Media Company, today announced that Kamal Arafeh has joined the company in the position of General Manager, Enterprise Products.

Arafeh will be responsible for sales of Roxio's Volume Licensing program, which makes it easier for corporate customers to purchase and deploy Easy CD Creator and GoBack across a number of seats in their organizations. As a key part of this role, he will take over responsibility for the company's award-winning system recovery product, GoBack.

"Kamal brings a wealth of experience in the enterprise business segment from his days at McAfee/Network Associates and Broadvision, among other career successes," said Tom Shea, chief operating officer at Roxio. "We believe sales to the enterprise markets are an untapped and substantial opportunity for Roxio. I am thrilled to have Kamal on board."

Having spent four successful years at Network Associates, Arafeh brings a strong track record selling into the enterprise space. He has demonstrated tremendous creativity in building relationships and programs that led to new revenue creation, such as certification programs and revenue sharing programs. His experience in high technology is broad, having had sales leadership roles in software, hardware, and solutions companies, and in large established, ventured backed, and high growth companies. Arafeh was recently a Senior Vice President of Sales at Netcentives.

Arafeh earned a bachelor's degree in management information systems from Johnson & Wales University in Providence, Rhode Island.

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About Roxio

Roxio, a division of Sonic Solutions, develops and markets the best-selling digital media software in the world. Roxio offers award-winning software products for CD/DVD burning, photo editing and video editing and has an installed base of over 150 million users. Roxio distributes its products globally through strategic partnerships with major hardware manufacturers, through leading retailers, through Internet partnerships and through direct sales at www.roxio.com. Roxio's parent company, Sonic Solutions (NASDAQ: SNIC; http://www.sonic.com) is the leader in digital media software and provides a broad range of software tools and applications for creative professionals, business and home users and technology partners. Sonic's products range from professional DVD authoring systems and interactive content delivery technologies that are used to produce the majority of Hollywood movies released on DVD, to the award-winning Roxio- and Sonic-branded CD and DVD creation, playback and backup applications that have become the premiere solutions for consumers and business users worldwide. Sonic's AuthorScript® is the de facto standard for CD and DVD burning and formatting and has been licensed by major software and hardware manufacturers, including Adobe, Broadcom, Microsoft, Scientific-Atlanta, Sony, and many others. Sonic Solutions is headquartered in Marin County, California.

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