Napster's Launch Party To Feature Hottest New Music Artists
Celebration at House of Blues on October 29th Marks Availability of Napster 2.0 in the United States
Long Angeles, California - (October 23, 2003) - Napster, a division of Roxio (Nasdaq: ROXI) today
announced the musical lineup for its October 29 celebration of the launch of the Napster 2.0 at the House of
Blues in Los Angeles. Additionally, in the spirit of Napster, hundreds of music fans will receive free tickets to
the exclusive event through local radio stations and fan site giveaways this week.
Ahmet Zappa will be the emcee for the evening and Def Jam recording artist Ludacris will headline the event.
Ludacris is the hottest musician in the country, with the number one selling album "Chicken N Beer". Other
popular new artists performing that night will include Dashboard Confessional (Vagrant), Interpol (Matador),
and Metric (Enjoy) and DJ Melo-D.
"Napster has always been synonymous with music. October 29th is a cause for celebration for music fans everywhere
as Napster comes back. This great concert is a way for us to bring the cutting edge artists of the day to the fans
that make it all happen," said Chris Gorog, Chairman and CEO of Roxio.
Napster 2.0 enables fans to freely sample the world's largest (over 500,000 tracks) and most diverse online collection
of music across all genres. The easy-to-use interface allows users to quickly and easily transfer songs to portable
devices or burn them to CDs for 99 cents per track or $9.95 per album. True to Napster's commitment to an open environment,
any visitor to the service can-free of charge and with no obligation-watch music videos on demand, listen to 30-second
music clips, browse decades of Billboard charts, read the online magazine Fuzz and take full advantage of the most robust
music recommendation engine ever created.
Music fans also have the option to upgrade to a premium service that offers unlimited listening and downloading, 40
commercial-free radio stations and a collection of interactive play lists and community features, including the ability
to email tracks to friends and mix in other music files from their hard drives, all for $9.95 a month.
Pre-registration is now available at http://www.napster.com.
About Napster
Napster® is the world's most recognized brand in online music. Napster has content agreements with the
five major record labels, as well as hundreds of independents. Napster delivers access to the largest catalog of online music
with more than 500,000 tracks spanning all genres and artists from Eminem to Miles Davis. Napster is a division of Roxio, Inc.,
(Nasdaq: ROXI), the Digital Media Company, provider of the best-selling digital media software in the world. Napster has offices
in Los Angeles and New York.
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.
Safe Harbor Statement
Except for historical information, the matters discussed in this press release, in particular matters related to future revenue,
customer demand for the Napster service, Napster's relationship with content providers, marketing partners and hardware manufacturers
are forward-looking statements that are subject to certain risks and uncertainties such as failure to attract new customers, slow
growth in demand for online music distribution generally and for the Napster service in particular, intense competition, failure
to maintain key corporate relationships, general economic conditions and undetected errors in the Napster software and service that
could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. Additional information on these and other factors are contained
in Roxio's reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q as
filed with the SEC on August 14, 2003, copies of which are available at the website maintained by the SEC at
http://www.sec.gov. Roxio assumes no obligation to update the forward-looking
statements included in this press release. Copyright © 2003 Roxio, Inc. All rights reserved. Roxio, the Roxio tagline and Napster
are registered trademarks of Roxio, Inc. or its subsidiaries in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks used
are owned by their respective owners.
Sonic, the Sonic logo, Sonic Solutions, Roxio, MyDVD, CineMagic, Plug & Burn, LiveShare, Roxio Easy Media Creator, and AuthorScript are
trademarks or registered trademarks of Sonic Solutions or its subsidiaries in the United States and/or other countries. Dolby is a trademark
of Dolby Laboratories. All other company or product names are trademarks of their respective owners and, in some cases, are used by Sonic
Solutions under license. Specifications, pricing and delivery schedules are subject to change without notice.
Copyright © 2003 Roxio, Inc. All rights reserved. Roxio, the Roxio tagline and Napster are registered trademarks of Roxio, Inc.
or its subsidiaries in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks used are owned by their respective owners.