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To: GST who wrote (137020)	1/14/2002 9:04:48 PM
From: Mark Fowler	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

By manipulating their "restructuring charge" they can report whatever "profit" or loss they feel like reporting on a pro forma basis --<< need to get back to Gaap accounting this market will continue to deflate the pro forma bullshit.

To: GST who wrote (137020)	1/14/2002 9:36:01 PM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

Was this press release purely for advertising purposes?? I mean there is nothing new here: "Monday January 14, 11:00 am Eastern Time Press Release SOURCE: Muze Inc Amazon.com Selects Muze To Provide Streaming Audio Samples For Its Music Store MuzeTunes(SM) To Provide No. 1 Online Music Store With Song Clips NEW YORK, NY--(INTERNET WIRE)--Jan 14, 2002 -- Muze Inc., a leading provider of entertainment product data for music, books, video and games, announced today that Amazon.com has selected Muze to provide song clips for its music store, the No. 1 online music store. Muze is providing Amazon.com with song clips via the MuzeTunes(SM) service, a high quality, streaming audio preview service. Powered by streaming media delivery technology from Akamai Technologies, Inc., MuzeTunes offers retailers over two million audio clips for commercially available albums. The clips are available in Real Audio® format and Microsoft Windows Media Audio. "At Amazon.com we are constantly working on behalf of our customers to help them find, discover and buy great products," said Bill Carr, Amazon.com's Director of Merchandising for Media Products. "We are very pleased to work with Muze to help our customers discover the music they want through more than two million, high-quality song clips." "Song clips play an important role in the online music sales cycle. With MuzeTunes, music enthusiasts can listen to song clips from albums they're interested in before buying them, which is one of the unique features of the online shopping experience," said Paul Zullo, executive vice president and co-founder of Muze. "We are pleased that Amazon.com selected Muze to provide this important service to its customers." Terms of the deal were not disclosed. More than two million Muze song clips are already available within Amazon.com's Music store."