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I, SeanL. Mayers, hereby declare:
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My nameis SeanL. Mayers. reside in Toronto, Canada. 2 I am the co-founderandthe Chief ExecutiveOfficer of J!VE Media
Technologies, Inc. ("J!VE Media"), a company incorporated in 2000 under the
laws of the Provinceof Ontario,Canada, having its registered and office in
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I hold a Mastersin Business Administrationfrom Queen'sUniversity,
Kingston,Ontario,Canada, Certificationin CompetitiveMarketingStrategy and from WhartonBusiness Schoolin Philadelphi~Pennsylvania. 4. Development Manager Beforejoining J!VE Media, wasthe Business
for Hotline Communications Ltd, a company that focused on file-sharing software
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12 applications.Beforethat, wasthe Marketing,Media and Sales Director of 13 Ticketmaster Canada. have over ten years of businessexperiencein the in 14 internetentertainment industry,duringthe last four yearsof which I have IS
specializedin businessopportunities in the peer to peer and distributed computing
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5. J!VE Media is the creatorof a suiteof digital video packaging, digital . 18 rights management, mediadelivery services, and which enablecontentprovidersto
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19 distributetheir video contentvia file-sharingon open,decentralized peer-to-peer
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services: first, safeguardingand customized digital packaging of clients' video content; second,distribution of enhancedvideo content using the file sharing
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softwareof our Syndicated DistributionNetwork Partners; third, trackingof and
our clients' enhancedvideo content.
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J!VE Media relieson the file sharingsoftwareof the members our of
SyndicatedDistribution Network to distribute content provided by our clients. I!VE Media's SyndicatedDistribution Network Partners include LimeWire, Grokster, MusicCity, and other peer to peer technology leaders By usingthe file
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content,J!VE Media is ableto distributeour clients' contentto the 17million computers currentlyusepeerto peerfile-sharingnetworks. that 7. I!VE Media's clientsarecontentproviderswho arewilling to have
their J!VE Media protected content distributed by users of peer to peer file sharing software, including the millions of users of the Morpheus, KaZaA and Grokster applications.
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Existing open,decentralized to peerfile-sharingnetworks,when peer
9 combined with the services offeredby J!VE Media, offer contentownersdistinct 10 businessadvantagesover alternate online distribution technologies. Streaming and
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centralized downloads representthe two most common forms of online distribution
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Distribution via streaming usually involvesrepeated access content to
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Similarly, offering downloads from controlledwebsites entails
considerable bandwidth,datastorage, maintenance and costs,asthe burdenof
11. By utilizing existing peer to peer file-sharing networks, in contrast,
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content owners are able to rely almost entirely on users to provide the most costly computing resourcesinvolved in digital distribution: data storageand bandwidth. I!VE Media's technology, meanwhile, provides the elementsof security and
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The flagshipproductof J!VE Media is theJ!VE PlayerPortable
25 Media File fomlat. This productallows J!VE Media to individually package music
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J!VE PlayerPortableMedia Files areuniquein severalrespects.
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files arecompressed makethem attractiveto consumers to facilitate sharing to and between internetconsumers peer-to-peer of networks,instant-messaging communities via an emaillilik. or
14. Second,digital rights managementin the files protect our clients' valuable video content. J!VE Media also tracks the distribution of our digitally wrapped content and reports on content distribution and promotional penetrationto
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Third, J!VE -Pla~r Portable Media files allow content.providers to
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Finally, sinceJ!VE Media distributesonly authorized content,J!VE
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very high-quality, fIrSt-generationvideo content. 7. A variety of content owners have recognized and embracedthe
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With the Priority Records division of the EM! Recorded Music Group to packageand distribute the promotional music video track "My Baby" by the well-known musical artist Lil' Romeo. J!VE Media seededthe Gnutella/ Lime Wire peer-to-peer network with the I
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enhanced video file. The file thenspontaneously spread the to FastTrack users'network (comprised usersof the Morpheus, of KaZaA andGrokstersoftware).This promotionwas extremely
successful. By November 2001, over 400,000 unique downloads had beenrecorded, of which 600/0 took place on open, decentraliZed peer-to-peernetworks;
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With Koch International, the world's third largest independent music label;
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With CHUMCity Interactive, the media arm of Canada'sCHUM Television, which owns the 24 hour music channelMuchMusic, to packageand distribute severalof its proprietary television programs including the Movie Television and Fashion Television channels;
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With The ComedyNetwork, Canada's24 hour comedy cable channel,for television content; and
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With Icebox Animation, the creatorsof the popular animatedhits "Zombie College," "Mr. Wong" and" StarshipRegulars"to packageand distribute selectedworks.
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J!VE Media is also currently exploring promotional and distribution
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J!VE Media's businessdependsupon peer to peer file sharing
16 networks, including the networks formed by the community of usersthat employ 7 the software producedby the defendantsin this case. 18
declareunder penalty of perjury under the laws of the United Statesof
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