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To: Shtirlitz who wrote (1094)	6/29/1999 2:51:00 AM
From: Ohshaw	Respond to of 2514

A CUST blast from the not-too-distant past stockprofile.com from a time when Customtracks was Amtech.

To: Shtirlitz who wrote (1094)	6/29/1999 3:02:00 AM
From: Ohshaw	Respond to of 2514

Here is an overview of Mr. Cook's music distribution patent. As we all know, this patent was a waste of CUST's money and time. Think his latest patent will be as good for business as this one? _______________________ US5860068: Method and system for custom manufacture and delivery of a data product View Images (9 pages) \| View Cart Add to cart: PDF (~855 KB) \| TIFF (~675 KB) \| SmartPatent (~675 KB) \| Fax \| More choices... Inventor(s): Cook; David Philip , Dallas, TX Applicant(s): Petabyte Corporation, Dallas, TX Issued/Filed Dates: Jan. 12, 1999 / Dec. 4, 1997 Application Number: US1997000984907 IPC Class: G11B 007/00; Class: Current: 705/026; 395/200.47; Original: 705/026; 395/200.47; Field of Search: 705/26,27,29 395/200.32,200.33,200.36,200.47,200.49,200.56 Abstract: A system for selling, manufacturing and distributing a custom digital data product from retail stores, over the Internet, over the telephone, or by electronic means (e.g., fax, e-mail, and the like) wherein a customer is provided (e.g., by electronic mail verification) order tracking information. After a customer selects a "set" of sound recordings or data from a library or catalog of such recordings or data and payment or credit is received or verified, an image of the "set" is assembled from a storage or "disk" farm. The image is preferably assembled at a manufacturing facility, e.g., a CD-ROM burner farm, where the product is then made. Every data object on the product may have a code associated therewith for later reference. The disk and burner farms communicate via a high speed communications subsystem to facilitate continuous processing. Upon assembly and manufacture, the product is packaged and shipped. Throughout the manufacture and distribution, the customer may track the process by activating a hyperlink in one or more e-mail confirmation messages provided by the service provider, or by entering order/tracking numbers from retail terminals or by telephone, or the like.

To: Shtirlitz who wrote (1094)	6/29/1999 7:18:00 AM
From: KM	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2514

From Herb Greenberg's column this a.m." Short Positions CustomTracks, update: Expect to see the shorts and longs step up their battle over CustomTracks (CUST:Nasdaq) today. The Texas company, no stranger to this column, has been attracting investors on the belief that it is about to unleash something (nobody has been sure quite what) on the Internet. Late yesterday the company gave a clue when it said it received U.S. approval for a new, unusually secure encryption technology from the U.S. government. The key part of the announcement, I am told, is the sentence in the press release that says the technology will allow Internet users "worldwide to send and receive encrypted and digitally signed email communications without changing their existing email addresses or their existing email systems." Simply put, you would be able to send totally secure emails from any email address within any network to any other email address anywhere -- something that isn't currently easy to do. If true, that's a big deal. "If this product is simple to use, transparent to users, inexpensive and easily installed or downloaded, the market opportunity is enormous," says Joe Barton of White Rock Capital, which owns about 9% of the company. (He thinks it will be.)