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TOM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS MCA CATALOG TO BE FEATURED
EXCLUSIVELY ON NAPSTER
LOS ANGELES, CA - (January 12, 2004) - Napster®, a division of Roxio (Nasdaq: ROXI), announced that starting tomorrow, members of the Napster service will gain exclusive access to some of Tom Petty’s best-selling works, including "Damn the Torpedoes", "Full Moon Fever" and "Into the Great Wide Open", and hit singles like ""Don't Do Me Like That", "Free Fallin'" and "Refugee". The catalog which comes from Universal Music Group, will be available for streaming, album and individual song burning and transfer to portable devices to Napster’s Basic and Premium members, who already choose from over 500,000 tracks, the largest catalog of music available online. This content increases Napster’s extensive catalog of exclusive music, which currently features music from artists like R.E.M., Mick Jagger and Puddle of Mudd as well as songs that have been recorded exclusively for Napster in Napster’s Los Angeles recording studio by artists like Rufus Wainwright, Guided By Voices, Brian McKnight and The Raveonettes. Tom Petty’s catalog will be featured exclusively on Napster for the next two weeks, after which time it will remain a permanent feature of Napster’s collection. The list of all Tom Petty and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers music available on Napster is listed below. "We are grateful to Tom Petty and UMG for choosing Napster for the exclusive debut of this extremely popular catalog," said Napster president and COO Mike Bebel. "This demonstrates that our service is recognized by labels and artists as a leader in digital music and that we are accomplishing our goal of being the ultimate source for music discovery and acquisition." Napster 2.0 raises the bar for online music. It enables fans to freely sample the world’s largest and most diverse online collection of music, featuring over half a million songs. The revolutionary, easy-to-use interface allows users to quickly and easily download tracks, transfer songs to portable devices or burn them to CDs for just 99 cents per track or $9.95 per album. In addition to the free online magazine, Billboard charts, music videos, song clips and the ability to email tracks to friends and browse other members’ collections, serious music fans have the added option to upgrade to a premium service that offers unlimited listening and downloading, over 40 commercial-free radio stations and a collection of interactive play lists and community features, all for just $9.95 a month. 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. Albums Currently In Napster Catalog: Anthology: Through the Years Damn the Torpedoes Echo Full Moon Fever Greatest Hits: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Hard Promises Into the Great Wide Open Let Me Up (I’ve Had Enough) Long After Dark Pack Up the Plantation: Live! Songs and Music From "She’s the One" Southern Accents The Last DJ Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Wildflowers You’re Gonna Get It Safe Harbor Statement Except for historical information, the matters discussed in this press release, in particular matters related to the launch of the Napster service, net income (loss), relationships with certain corporate partners including marketing partners and hardware and software manufacturers, relationships with content providers, and product development, are forward-looking statements that are subject to certain risks and uncertainties such as decreased demand for our products, increased competition, failure to develop new products or improvements to existing products, failure to maintain business relationships with our partners and general economic conditions, 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 and Napster are either trademarks or 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.
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