FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Monday, July 16, 2001

New Vice President of Engineering, Glenn Morten, Joins Widevine Technologies

Morten's Engineering Management and Product Development Expertise Promises to Enhance Efforts of Widevine's World-Class Development Team

Seattle, WA, July 16, 2001 – Widevine Technologies announced today that Glenn Morten has joined the company, serving as the Vice President of Engineering. An experienced software engineer and manager of teams of engineers, Morten is responsible for managing the product development initiatives at Widevine.

"With his experience and heritage of successful product development and on-time delivery, we're very proud to have Glenn joining the management team at Widevine Technologies," said John Beyer, Chief Executive Officer. "His experience in security and in software development will help Glenn hit the ground running. With a team of some of the world's best engineers in their fields on board at Widevine, this is an exciting new opportunity for him as well."

Prior to joining Widevine, Morten served as Vice President, Product Development for CyberSafe Corporation. He has served in a number of management, product development and product support roles at companies including Spacelabs Medical, Inc., Abbott Diagnostics Division, Texas Instruments, and for the U.S. Army. Morten holds a masters of science in systems management from the University of Southern California, and a computer science degree from West Virginia University. Morten also serves on the board of directors for local software consulting firm, i-Codesmith.

Morten is charged with managing developers focused on Widevine Cypher™, Widevine Mensor™ and other products of Widevine Technologies that are yet to be publicly revealed.

About Widevine Cypher
Widevine Cypher is a patent-pending communications security product that enables shared encryption for streaming media on the Internet and private networks. Among its existing and planned capabilities are:

• Complete transparency on both the server and client end, allowing customers to continue using the hardware and software they already own.
• Full compatibility with all current standards-based streaming media technologies, including RealMedia (NASDAQ: RNWK), Windows Media (NASDAQ: MSFT), QuickTime (NASDAQ: AAPL), and MPEG.
• Client-side security and monitoring prevents streams from being captured by network stack hacking, screen-scraping, and other common techniques by shutting down streams automatically when such attacks are detected.
• Modular client shim design allows easy development and instant deployment of new encryption algorithms, enhanced client side security technology, custom back-channel data communication and much more.

About Widevine Mensor
With several patents issued, licensed and pending, Widevine Mensor is an important new technology that promises to changes the manner in which a variety of customers address the challenges that the Internet and tracking media on the Internet present. Widevine Technologies continues to develop the product according to the needs of specific customers.

About Widevine Technologies, Inc.
Widevine Technologies is a leading developer of Internet infrastructure security products and technologies. The company's products are platform- and format-independent and provide value-added services and technologies for Internet streaming media and copyright protection. Founded in 1999, Widevine Technologies is based in Seattle, Washington. The core of the company is a world-class team of streaming media and encryption technology developers. For more information about Widevine Technologies, please visit www.widevine.com.

Media Contact:
Eric Moser
Ruder Finn Chicago (for Widevine Technologies)
Tel: +1 312 329 3908
mosere@ruderfinn.com

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