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Cool Entertainment, Inc. 10900 NE 8th Street, Suite 900, Bellevue, WA 98004 Corporate Office: 425.688.2997 ~ Fax: 425.454.4383 ~ Investor Relations: 888.603.8833 NEWS RELEASE April 6, 2000 Cool Entertainment Inc. Signs Agreement with Digital Content Provider ?amplified.com BELLEVUE, Wash., April 6 -- Cool Entertainment Inc., (OTC Bulletin Board: CULE), announced today that it has signed an agreement with amplified.com, the world's leading online business-to-business fulfillment service for music and video products. Per the terms of the agreement, amplified.com is providing Cool Entertainment with thousands of licensed digital music tracks, digital rights management and the digital media technology required to deliver both digital downloads and custom compilations to Cool Entertainment?s users. Clement Lau, President of Cool Entertainment, Inc., said, "Our alliance with amplified.com will assist us in ensuring that digital downloads are available on the Cool Entertainment site by June 1." "amplified.com is the leader in providing digital and physical entertainment products to the Web?s premier retailers," said John Harran, Vice President of Business Development at amplified.com. "Our partners including Cool Entertainment, have access to our seamless digital delivery system, and our experienced team who have been implementing digital delivery since 1995." amplified.com?s unique e-commerce system fulfills the consumer?s orders (either digitally or via mail) and the consumer never realizes they have left the retailer?s site. This model works for online retailers because it provides them timeliness, expertise and economies of scale; elements they cannot produce in-house. ABOUT AMPLIFIED.COM amplified.com is the world?s leading business-to-business online fulfillment company for entertainment products. amplified.com provides CDs, DVDs, Digital Downloads and Custom CDs to most of the Internet?s leading retail sites. The company offers a full suite of fulfillment services for record companies, and provides a perfect solution for any business wishing to sell music and video over the Internet. amplified.com also specializes in digital media technology and DRM services, offering a robust list of services for labels and for destination sites. The Company is privately held, and its owners include Valley Media, Bear Stern?s Constellation Ventures, Psilos Group, and Noro-Moseley Partners. Additional information is available at www.amplified.com. ABOUT COOL ENTERTAINMENT INC. Cool Entertainment is a comprehensive, entertainment retail website, which will be offering a wide range of products including CDs, DVDs, videos, and video games. The website will also offer value-added services including online games, free e-mail accounts, and other entertainment. Cool Management is currently exploring additional distribution opportunities in Europe, Asia, Australia and Latin America. For further information, please visit: coolentertainment.com or www.charterbridge.net. Statements about the Company's future expectations, including future revenues, earnings and transactions, as well as all other statements in the press release other than historical facts are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The Company intends that such forward-looking statements be subject to the safe harbors created thereby. Since these statements involve risks and uncertainties and are subject to change at any time, the Company's actual results and other corporate developments could differ materially from that which has been anticipated in such statements. Contact: Travis Christ Charterbridge Financial Group, Inc. 619-696-8000 tchrist@charterbridge.net www.charterbridge.net SOURCE Cool Entertainment Inc.