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To: afrayem onigwecher who wrote (427)	3/17/2001 8:28:02 PM
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A CD that can't be ripped? There's no such thing. google.com Monday, December 18, 2000 _______________________________________________________________ Today's OPINE webnoize.com o Consumers Won't Play SunnComm City A CD that can't be ripped? There's no such thing. Still, Phoenix-based SunnComm claims it has a technology that makes a CD rip-proof, thus preventing meddling kids from trafficking MP3 copies all over the Web. But a rip-proof CD also can't be used for a perfectly legal purpose, making MP3s for personal use. While that is a consumer right, it's not a protected right. "The fair use argument is a bunch of nonsense. The people raising their hands and crying 'fair use' are the same folks pirating the content," says SunnComm Chairman John Aquilino. SunnComm's idea won't work. Nobody ever made more money from a product by making it less functional -- not to mention increasing production costs. If people want MP3s and they can't make them from the CDs they own, they'll go online to find them -- exactly what SunnComm's technology tries to prevent. But where will those people go? Straight to the people who will crack SunnComm's technology within weeks of its deployment. See today's news below.... -> SunnComm Hoping to Change Consumer Habit and Industry Practice With Encryption Technology news.webnoize.com

To: afrayem onigwecher who wrote (427)	3/17/2001 8:40:51 PM
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Registrant:Dominion Capital Inc (DOMINIONCAPITAL2-DOM) 7835 E. Redfield Suite #200 Scottsdale, AZ 85260 US Domain Name: dominioncapital.com Administrative Contact: Matteson, Trond (TMJ244) tmatteson@DCSECURITES.COM Dominion Capital Inc. 7835 E. Redfield Dr. Suite 200 Scottsdale , AZ 85260 480-947-4477 (FAX) 480-947-4499 Technical Contact, Billing Contact: Matteson, Trond (TMD319) tmatteson@DCSECURITIES.COM Dominion Capital Inc. 7835 E. Redfield Suite 200 Scottsdale , AZ 85260 480-947-4477 (FAX) 480-947-4477 Record last updated on 22-Jun-2000. Record expires on 22-Jun-2002. Record created on 22-Jun-2000. Database last updated on 17-Mar-2001 11:00:00 EST. Domain servers in listed order: NS1.NETNATION.COM 204.174.223.1 NS2.NETNATION.COM 204.174.223.31 Registrant: Dominion Capital Securities, Inc. (DCSECURITIES-DOM) 7309 East Stetson Drive, Suite 202 Scottsdale, AZ 85251 US Domain Name: dcsecurities.com Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Billing Contact: Cotter, Barry (BC276) bjc@ADVANTAGE.COM advantagedotcom services inc. 7616 Sutton Place Delta BC V4C 7R3 CA 604-720-4175 (FAX) 604-501-2579 Record last updated on 29-Jun-2000. Record expires on 13-Jul-2001. Record created on 13-Jul-1998. Database last updated on 17-Mar-2001 11:00:00 EST. Domain servers in listed order: NS.ADVANTAGE.COM 209.17.171.34 NS2.BROADBAND.NET 209.135.99.4 Fahrenheit Entertainment Inc. Changes the Launch of First Copy-Protected CD DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 26, 2001-Fahrenheit Entertainment Inc. (OTC:FHOT) announced Monday the launch of SunnComm (OTC:SUNX) copy-protection on Music City Record's new Charley Pride CD. Originally, Stepfanie Kramer's One Dream was scheduled to be the first copy-protected CD for launch by Fahrenheit Entertainment Inc. However, Peter Trimarco, President and CEO of Fahrenheit Entertainment Inc., made the decision to introduce the copy-protection software on a CD that has not yet been circulated. Pride's newly recorded release with Music City Records is scheduled to be shipped as early as March 20, 2001. The private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 provides a "safeharbor" for forward-looking statements. The press release contains forward-looking statements that involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Such forward-looking information involves important risks and uncertainties that could significantly affect anticipated results in the future; and accordingly, such results may differ from those expressed in any forward-looking statement made by or on behalf of the Company. For more information, review the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. CONTACT: dominioncapital.com Dominion Capital Inc. Trond Matteson, 877/432-7462 info@KEYWORD: COLORADO

To: afrayem onigwecher who wrote (427)	3/17/2001 8:44:01 PM
From: StockDung	Respond to of 609

SunnComm, Inc. Background: Revised: 10/06/00 SunnComm, Inc. (SUNX), formerly Desert Winds Entertainment Corp., is the owner of proprietary, patent-pending encryption and copy-protection technology designed to enhance and copy-protect digital music and other intellectual properties as they are transmitted over the Internet or purchased on compact disc. Once in the entertainment business itself, the Arizona-based firm has divested itself of all assets and liabilities related to the production and marketing of TV and feature-length films and live casino and theatre shows. SUNX intends to develop, test and distribute software that inhibits illegal duplication of licensed digital music recordings through encryption and copy protection. The growth of Internet-transmitted digital music, the company observes, has raised enormous concern from record companies, artists and producers over the unauthorized distribution and resulting lost revenues from this distribution of prerecorded digital product. SUNX intends to eliminate the copy-capability of such digitally recorded music and programming. The company's encryption process will also allow record companies to copy-protect their manufactured CDs and DVDs, thus ensuring that music offered through these media will be not be pirated. SUNX has acquired proprietary, patent-applied-for encryption and copy-protection technology to be marketed as SUN-X Sentinel. According to the company, the Sentinel's encryption features are not resolvable using any single solution, greatly reducing the probability of loss to illegal decryption agents. SUNX will charge a royalty to recording companies to use the software. Presently, the Sentinel will protect compact discs from unauthorized duplication. SUNX is seeking to develop software applications for digital video (DVD). Finally, the last stage of development will protect digital data (software programs that come on compact discs). Later, the company intends to modify the technology to protect data as it is transmitted on the Internet. The company's contractor has completed development of the encryption technology and primary programming is in place. The first stage prototype is complete. SUNX believes the SUN-X Sentinel provides security that is qualitatively different than the security provided by other technologies. A shrink-wrapped CD purchased off-the-shelf that was manufactured embedding the company's technology cannot be digitally copied more often than the original license specifies. Using the Sentinel involves no degradation in quality, the company says, and the technology is not format-specific. INCORPORATED in Nevada Nov. 12, 1998, as Desert Winds Entertainment Corp.; and on Dec. 10, 1998, merged Ti-Mail, Inc. (Ore.). In the merger, 48,879,023 shares of Ti-Mail were exchanged for 977,580 shares of the company. Ti-Mail was organized in Oregon Aug. 9, 1993, as Compliance Signage, Inc., and changed its name to Ti-Mail, Inc. on Apr. 4, 1996. December 31, 1998, the company merged The Whitney Corp., a Nevada corporation. The company issued 6,500,000 Common shares in the merger. The company's present title was adopted July 6, 2000. Copyright © 2000, Standard & Poor's google.com

To: afrayem onigwecher who wrote (427)	3/17/2001 9:05:30 PM
From: StockDung	Respond to of 609

Hows TTRE's beta test goin?->Earlier this year BMG Germany came under fire for releasing 130, 000 CDs with copy-protection from Israeli digital security experts Midbar. The level of customer complaint was phenomenal as listeners asserting that the discs wouldn't work in their home players; BMG was forced to recall the discs and stop the trial. Aquilino, however, claims that the SunnComm techniques are far more compatible, with only pre-1995 players likely to suffer problems. "I've only had one machine fail - an old early 1990 Pioneer machine... But we're not going to pull the project based on that because there's always further development and refinement." google.com Friday, December 22, 2000 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Protection racket -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- American record company Fahrenheit Entertainment, which represents country artists such as Willie Nelson and Roy Clark, is to sell its catalogue on copy-protected CDs starting early next year. The discs will be encrypted by Phoenix-based SunnComm, whose spokesman Mario Iacoviello claims that "whether you purchase it in the store or download it off the Internet, you will not be able to copy it onto another CD if it is manufactured through our encryption software." SunnComm aims to achieve this end by altering the data portion of the CD rather than the audio itself. "There's a whole lot of data aside from the audio such as the table of contents" says John Aquilino, SunnComm chairman. We've altered data at multiple points in the disc to render it incapable of being copied or recognized from the standpoint of data." While such a solution is obviously attractive to a record company, the compact disc itself was not designed with anti-piracy measures in mind. Past attempts at preventing CDs from being copied, therefore, have been far from succesful. Earlier this year BMG Germany came under fire for releasing 130, 000 CDs with copy-protection from Israeli digital security experts Midbar. The level of customer complaint was phenomenal as listeners asserting that the discs wouldn't work in their home players; BMG was forced to recall the discs and stop the trial. Aquilino, however, claims that the SunnComm techniques are far more compatible, with only pre-1995 players likely to suffer problems. "I've only had one machine fail - an old early 1990 Pioneer machine... But we're not going to pull the project based on that because there's always further development and refinement." Thursday, December 21, 2000

To: afrayem onigwecher who wrote (427)	3/17/2001 9:08:01 PM
From: StockDung	Respond to of 609

Copy-Protected CDs a Nightmare for BMG Germany By Barry Willis February 7, 2000 Copy-Protected CDs a Nightmare for BMG Germany By Barry Willis Blaming a falloff in CD sales on the popularity of CD burners, BMG Germany recently issued approximately 100,000 copy-protected discs in an attempt to thwart the problem—and had to take a substantial portion of them back because consumers said the discs wouldn't perform in car players and in some home audio systems. The discs were put out for sale in German music stores the last week of January, and about 4% of them bounced back almost immediately, with complaints from customers. "The consumers started getting back saying it doesn't play on car CD players and several types of normal players," said BMG Germany's head of new media Matthias Immel. "We were really shocked." The Cactus Data Shield copy-protection technology from Israeli software company Midbar was intended to prevent computer users from making copies on CD burners—inexpensive devices that can be easily installed in most computers, and which can "write" an entire CD's worth of music in about 15 minutes for less than the cost of a cassette tape. The copy-protected discs were tested on approximately 1000 different players before being approved for shipment, according to BMG executives. The discs were limited to the German market and consisted of two new rock releases, one by the Finnish group Him, currently at the top of the German pop charts. When customers started complaining, BMG released non-protected versions of the titles instead. "We wouldn't have done it if it had been clear to us that we would have problems," Immel said. "We don't want consumers to be upset." The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry claims that a worldwide decline of 9.8% in music sales occurred in the first six months of 1999, compared to the same period in 1998. Both BMG and Midbar plan to try again with an improved copy-protection scheme. Stereophile and the Stereophile logo are registered trademarks of EmapUSA All contents copyright ©1997-2000 EmapUSA All rights reserved. Content may not be copied or reproduced without permission. google.com

To: afrayem onigwecher who wrote (427)	3/17/2001 9:13:29 PM
From: StockDung	Respond to of 609

BMG Reissues HIM's Razorblade Romance (OSLO) - Following up on recent briefs, BMG Germany has been forced to reissue its hit album Razorblade Romance by Finnish rock act HIM after the use of the new Cactus Data Shield copyright-protection system rendered the CDs unplayable on certain standard players. Cactus, which prevents copying via CD-Rs and the making of MP3 files, was developed by Israeli company Midbar. Last week, BMG Germany put out new versions of the album without the shield. HIM manager Seppo Vesterinen says the problems are limited to German pressings; the Finnish release did not carry Cactus. "We have received several complaints here directly. For instance, that the discs couldn't be played on car players and that the CD only could be started via track one and not, for example, via track four." The first title to use Cactus, Razorblade Romance debuted at No. 1 on the German chart earlier this month. Hans-Dieter Queren, a director at BMG manufacturing facility Sonopress, says, "We had delivered 100,000 discs of HIM, and afterward we discovered that there were 11 [types of] players where the disc didn't work." He says they are "very far away" from implementing Cactus as a uniform standard within BMG. "We have to have major discussions between BMG, Midbar, and Sonopress next week." (Billboard Bulletin) © 2000, BPI COMMUNICATIONS INC. google.com

To: afrayem onigwecher who wrote (427)	3/17/2001 9:29:38 PM
From: StockDung	Respond to of 609

German CD Protection Fails Thurs feb.03 - 1:45pm At risk of sounding like we're saying "we told 'em so," we'd like to take a moment to draw your attention to this little item we found over at Wired news. It seems that copy protection has finally, albeit abortively, made it to the music CD market — and much to nobody's surprise, it failed. The culprit here is BMG, who ran a test of CD protection technology in Germany. Out of about 100,000 protected CDs sold, between three and four thousand of them were returned by angry customers who said they simply didn't work. It's not as if the problems were limited to a particular brand or type of CD player; the playback issues occurred, according to the article, on several different kinds of car- and home-theatre based CD players. BMG said they tested the technology (developed in Israel by a company called Midbar) on more than 1,000 players. Apparently that wasn't enough, but Midbar is hard at work on another revision of the technology, which is supposed to allow playback in stereos and computers but prevent saving or converting of the tracks to a digital format that can be manipulated or copied on a computer. Controlling digital music has been a hot topic since the explosion in popularity of downloadable digital music, but this is the first time a company has taken direct action. BMG says it was triggered by a 9.8% slump in sales for the first half of 1999 over the same period in 1998; BMG's new media head Matthias Immel says the "more or less obvious reason for the shrinking market is the CD burner issue," but declined to cite specific research that led him to that particular conclusion. All of which begs the obvious question: is the slump in German CD sales solely attributable to piracy? Gene Hoffman, founder and CEO of EMusic.com, isn't so sure. "The ability to copy CDs has been around for at least a year," he says. "What is the true underlying cause of that decrease in sales?" Hoffman thinks that securing the format from copying isn't the answer; instead he favors enforcement (rather than lipservice) of anti-piracy laws and fairer pricing for music. Protection schemes drive up failure rates (the recent German experiment offers corroboration of that) which in turn drives customer satisfaction down. And if slow sales are the problem, frustrating customers is not the solution. google.com

To: afrayem onigwecher who wrote (427)	3/27/2001 7:51:42 PM
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BTW, WHO YA GONNA SQUEEZE??? SHORT INTEREST IS A PIDDLY 145,000 SHARES AND IS ONLY 1.7% OF THE FLOAT AND WITH ONLY A Short Ratio OF 1.71 . TO BAD SO SAD CHUMP!! biz.yahoo.com Short Interest As of 8-Feb-2001 Shares Short 145.0K Percent of Float 1.7% Shares Short (Prior Month) 112.0K Short Ratio 1.71 Daily Volume 85.0K

To: afrayem onigwecher who wrote (427)	3/27/2001 8:02:36 PM
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TTRE Financial HIGHLIGHTS Summary TTR Technologies, Inc. designs, develops and markets anti-piracy software technologies that provide encryption and copy protection for software applications distributed on CD-ROMs. For the fiscal year ended 12/31/00, revenue fell 97% to $2 thousand. Net loss decreased 63% to $4.8 million. Results reflect reducing licesing fees from the DiscGuard product, offset by the absence of amortization of deferred financing costs and reduced stock based compensation costs.