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Loudeye Announces First and Only Peer-to-Peer Anti-Piracy Solution With a Guaranteed 99% Effectiveness With Billions of Dollars Lost to Piracy Each Year, Loudeye Releases Its Overpeer Titanium Service Offering to Provide the Highest Level of Protection to Content Owners SEATTLE, May 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Loudeye Corp. , the worldwide leader in business-to-business digital media solutions, today announced several key developments with its Overpeer anti-piracy service offering, including the introduction of the industry's first and only anti-piracy service level agreement (SLA) that guarantees 99% effectiveness in preventing the illicit sharing of digital media across peer-to-peer networks. Overpeer, which was acquired by Loudeye in March of this year, has been integrated as a service offering within Loudeye's digital media asset protection line of business. The new Overpeer Titanium service offering meets the urgent demand for high performance piracy protection services across the music, film/video, game and software industries. In creating the Titanium level of service, Loudeye has more than doubled the infrastructure supporting the Overpeer service, which now provides the industry's highest level of guaranteed protection across peer-to-peer networks. These performance levels are regularly verified for customers through various independent 3rd party testing and Loudeye's own proprietary technology that automatically scans worldwide piracy activity. In the last 3 months Loudeye has also signed on new major customers across the music, game, software and film/video industries, demonstrating the overall need by content owners for more robust and effective solutions than what has previously existed. "Millions of unauthorized transmissions of copyrighted material occur on peer-to-peer networks around the world everyday. Material is traded illegitimately on these networks before it is even officially released in the retail channels, cutting into a substantial slice of content owners' revenue during the most popular buying period of a product," said Marc Morgenstern, vice president and general manager of Loudeye's digital media asset protection business. "With our substantial new infrastructure and personnel investments, combined with our Titanium service, we have raised the bar for the protection of content owners' assets against copyright infringement." Loudeye acquired Overpeer, Inc. in March of 2004 to add piracy protection, comprehensive data mining and promotional tools as well as extend its reach into the music, film/video, game and software industries. The Overpeer service offering protects content across peer-to-peer networks responsible for more than 90% of worldwide file sharing, and provides visibility into 25 billion digital download hits a month from 150 million unique user sessions traffic. Loudeye holds multiple patents in Europe and Asia with four patents pending in the U.S. for the Overpeer service offering's proprietary systems, technology and software. With the addition of Titanium SLAs guaranteed at 99% effectiveness, Loudeye provides the industry's most effective anti-piracy solution for peer-to-peer networks worldwide. About Loudeye Corp. Loudeye is the worldwide leader in business-to-business digital media solutions and the outsourcing provider of choice for companies looking to maximize the return on their digital media investment. Loudeye combines innovative products and services with the world's largest music archive and the industry's leading digital media infrastructure enabling partners to rapidly and cost effectively launch complete, customized digital media stores and services. For more information, visit http://www.loudeye.com/ . Forward Looking Statements This release contains forward-looking information within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements about the Overpeer service offering, and the use, performance, expected benefits and projected revenue associated with Loudeye's digital media solutions and asset protection services; and statements by the vice president and general manager of Loudeye's digital media asset protection business. These statements are based on current estimates and actual results may differ materially due to risks, including the possibility of adverse changes in the market for distribution of digital audio and video that Loudeye serves; adverse or uncertain legal developments with respect to copyrights surrounding the creation and distribution of digital content; pricing pressures and other activities by competitors; the failure of Loudeye's hosting infrastructure; the complexity of Loudeye's services and delivery networks; any problems or failures in the structure, complexities or redundancies of Loudeye's network infrastructure; failures in third party telecommunication and network providers to provide required transmission capacity; Loudeye's capacity to scale and support third party technologies; lack of market acceptance for Loudeye's products and services; the possible delay in the adoption of digital media or related applications on the web in general; and other risks set forth in Loudeye's most recent Form 10-Q, Form 10-K and other SEC filings which are available through EDGAR at http://www.sec.gov/ . Loudeye assumes no obligation to update the forward-looking statements. DATASOURCE: Loudeye Corp. CONTACT: media, Karen DeMarco of mPRm, +1-323-933-3399, or , for Loudeye Corp.; or investors, Michael Dougherty of Loudeye Corp., +1-206-832-4000, or Web site: http://www.loudeye.com/

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