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mpGreek and Pegasus Interactive Form Strategic Alliance for Powerful Music Services

Thu, 08 Dec 2005 00:00:00 -0600

mpGreek and Pegasus Interactive, both leading Internet companies in their respective industries, today announced a strategic alliance to provide co-branded music service for the Greek market. Pegasus' new site can be found at www.gomp3.gr

New Yrok, NY -- (SBWIRE) -- 12/9/2005 -- mpGreek and Pegasus Interactive, both leading Internet companies in their respective industries, today announced a strategic alliance to provide co-branded music service for the Greek market. Pegasus' new site can be found at www.gomp3.gr

Through the relationship, Pegasus and mpGreek will take online listening to the next level by allowing music enthusiasts to search for the music they want and to download them to their PCs. gomp3.gr allows customers to download from a catalog of more than 85,000 songs which is powered by mpGreek's music platform. Additionally the gomp3.gr music service offers:

• Large Music Library: a continuously growing online catalog of music with more than 85,000 songs, encoded in high audio quality from major and independent record labels. International Repertoire will be added in the first few months form all genres and music labels.

• Song ratings and dedications: Users can rate the songs they see on gomp3.gr and send an e-dedication email with the audio preview and a small note to any email address.

• Music Portability: subscription tracks can be transferred to any portable device that supports the WMA format and Windows Media Digital Rights Management

• Access From Any PC: access to personalized subscription content from any Internet-connected computer.

• Download Purchases: access to a music download store, allowing users to purchase and permanently own songs for €1.10 cents per track. Purchased downloads can be burned onto CDs, transferred to compatible portable devices, and used on a total of five PCs.

"Today's Greek music scene as we know it is changing," said Mr. Thomas Siozopoulos, CEO of Pegasus Interactive "gomp3.gr is a rich, exciting service that gives customers a way to legitimately access, enjoy and share a vast variety of online Greek music. In combination with Pegasus Group's rich content and services it will offer a complete experience for online users who seek robust and reliable music downloads.

Mr. Alexis Kombogiannis, Director of mpGreek commented: "mpGreek brings a unique blend of innovative Web services, deep experience in Digital Music, and strong reliable stature to this alliance. This preferred relationship with Pegasus Interactive underscores mpGreek's success in partnering with media providers to create a powerful Internet experience that delivers the most value to their users. Digital Music in Greece looks like it has a bright future with such partnerships."

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Tellas: the first ISP to launch an online Music Store via mpGreek.com Music Service

Sat, 15 Oct 2005 00:00:00 -0500

New Yrok, NY -- (SBWIRE) -- 12/9/2005 -- mpGreek and Pegasus Interactive, both leading Internet companies in their respective industries, today announced a strategic alliance to provide co-branded music service for the Greek market. Pegasus' new site can be found at www.gomp3.gr

Through the relationship, Pegasus and mpGreek will take online listening to the next level by allowing music enthusiasts to search for the music they want and to download them to their PCs. gomp3.gr allows customers to download from a catalog of more than 85,000 songs which is powered by mpGreek's music platform. Additionally the gomp3.gr music service offers:

• Large Music Library: a continuously growing online catalog of music with more than 85,000 songs, encoded in high audio quality from major and independent record labels. International Repertoire will be added in the first few months form all genres and music labels.

• Song ratings and dedications: Users can rate the songs they see on gomp3.gr and send an e-dedication email with the audio preview and a small note to any email address.

• Music Portability: subscription tracks can be transferred to any portable device that supports the WMA format and Windows Media Digital Rights Management

• Access From Any PC: access to personalized subscription content from any Internet-connected computer.

• Download Purchases: access to a music download store, allowing users to purchase and permanently own songs for €1.10 cents per track. Purchased downloads can be burned onto CDs, transferred to compatible portable devices, and used on a total of five PCs.

"Today's Greek music scene as we know it is changing," said Mr. Thomas Siozopoulos, CEO of Pegasus Interactive "gomp3.gr is a rich, exciting service that gives customers a way to legitimately access, enjoy and share a vast variety of online Greek music. In combination with Pegasus Group's rich content and services it will offer a complete experience for online users who seek robust and reliable music downloads.

Mr. Alexis Kombogiannis, Director of mpGreek commented: "mpGreek brings a unique blend of innovative Web services, deep experience in Digital Music, and strong reliable stature to this alliance. This preferred relationship with Pegasus Interactive underscores mpGreek's success in partnering with media providers to create a powerful Internet experience that delivers the most value to their users. Digital Music in Greece looks like it has a bright future with such partnerships."

New York, NY & Athens Greece -- (SBWIRE) -- 10/18/2005 -- Tellas announced today that it will provide digital downloads through its new "Tellas Music Store" in cooperation with mpGreek.com which is owned by Greased Networks, the global leader in Greek digital music services. The new service enables the Legal download of Greek music and Greek Ringtones, securely and easily, at low prices and at the convenience of the user's home.

"Tellas Music Store" is a completely fresh as to web-design, structure and content music service available at http://music.tellas.gr. It is user-friendly, pleasant, bilingual, easy in access and surfing and continuously updated with the latest hits of Greek music releases.

Tellas is the first ISP to offer the opportunity to all Internet users in Greece to purchase and download thousands of tracks from an extensive digital catalogue of titles from Greek repertoire. "Tellas Music Store" online visitors have now the convenience to choose from more than 75.000 tracks and to download single tracks or complete albums. To enable security and support for the "Tellas Music Store", mpGreek uses Microsoft's digital rights management (DRM) software.

Mr. Antonis Tzortzakakis, Marketing Manager of Tellas, commented: "The new "Tellas Music Store" serves perfectly the philosophy of Tellas for innovation and value added services, not only for our ADSL subscribers but for all internet users, in order to spread Internet use in the most friendly, legal and safe way for users. This is the first step that Tellas makes towards the new broadband era that will mark the advantages of broadband services''. In the coming months, we will continue to add music and content to "Tellas Music Store" and offer users more choice and other innovative features".

Alex Kombogiannis, Director of mpGreek, added: "mpGreek's extensive catalogue of Greek music as well as its secure platform combined with Tellas' high speed bundle of services opens the path to Greek users for using legal means into acquiring music. Additionally "It's also a great example of how mpGreek's digital media platform and Tellas' leading Telecom network can offer a complementary service that directly serves the needs of the emerging broadband user in Greece. "

For further information on "Tellas Music Store", those interested can visit music.tellas.gr or Tellas site www.tellas.gr .

About Tellas
Tellas SA is owned 100% by `Wind–PPC Holding N.V.`, in which `PPC Telecommunications S.A.` participates with 50% (minus 1 share) and `Wind Telecomunicazioni SpA` participates with 50% (plus 1 share). Tellas provides integrated telecommunications services to the Greek market, such as Fixed Telephony Services, Internet Access Services, as well as Broadband Services. Further information about Tellas can be found on the company's website www.tellas.gr

About Greased Networks, Inc
Greased Networks is a leading technology firm at the forefront of Greek music downloads. mpGreek has long been recognized as one of the largest providers of Greek digital music content in addition to being one of the largest Greek online music stores over all. Founded in August 2003, Greased Networks Inc manages the software and systems that cover all aspects of music content aggregation and delivery, including content acquisition, media storage, secure delivery, digital rights management and customer billing, to ensure that all rights holders are fairly compensated for their work. Further information about Greased Networks can be found on the company's website www.mpGreek.com

http://www.mpGreek.com
Greased Networks, Inc.
mpGreek PR Dept.
+1-(212)202-0696
info@mpgreek.com

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PR Dept.
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Web: http://music.tellas.gr

mpGreek signs deal with Lyra and MBI to offer Greek music downloads

Sun, 09 Oct 2005 00:00:00 -0500

• Song ratings and dedications: Users can rate the songs they see on gomp3.gr and send an e-dedication email with the audio preview and a small note to any email address.

• Music Portability: subscription tracks can be transferred to any portable device that supports the WMA format and Windows Media Digital Rights Management

• Access From Any PC: access to personalized subscription content from any Internet-connected computer.

"Tellas Music Store" is a completely fresh as to web-design, structure and content music service available at http://music.tellas.gr. It is user-friendly, pleasant, bilingual, easy in access and surfing and continuously updated with the latest hits of Greek music releases.

Tellas is the first ISP to offer the opportunity to all Internet users in Greece to purchase and download thousands of tracks from an extensive digital catalogue of titles from Greek repertoire. "Tellas Music Store" online visitors have now the convenience to choose from more than 75.000 tracks and to download single tracks or complete albums. To enable security and support for the "Tellas Music Store", mpGreek uses Microsoft's digital rights management (DRM) software.

Mr. Antonis Tzortzakakis, Marketing Manager of Tellas, commented: "The new "Tellas Music Store" serves perfectly the philosophy of Tellas for innovation and value added services, not only for our ADSL subscribers but for all internet users, in order to spread Internet use in the most friendly, legal and safe way for users. This is the first step that Tellas makes towards the new broadband era that will mark the advantages of broadband services''. In the coming months, we will continue to add music and content to "Tellas Music Store" and offer users more choice and other innovative features".

Alex Kombogiannis, Director of mpGreek, added: "mpGreek's extensive catalogue of Greek music as well as its secure platform combined with Tellas' high speed bundle of services opens the path to Greek users for using legal means into acquiring music. Additionally "It's also a great example of how mpGreek's digital media platform and Tellas' leading Telecom network can offer a complementary service that directly serves the needs of the emerging broadband user in Greece. "

For further information on "Tellas Music Store", those interested can visit music.tellas.gr or Tellas site www.tellas.gr .

About Tellas

Tellas SA is owned 100% by `Wind–PPC Holding N.V.`, in which `PPC Telecommunications S.A.` participates with 50% (minus 1 share) and `Wind Telecomunicazioni SpA` participates with 50% (plus 1 share). Tellas provides integrated telecommunications services to the Greek market, such as Fixed Telephony Services, Internet Access Services, as well as Broadband Services. Further information about Tellas can be found on the company's website www.tellas.gr

About Greased Networks, Inc

Greased Networks is a leading technology firm at the forefront of Greek music downloads. mpGreek has long been recognized as one of the largest providers of Greek digital music content in addition to being one of the largest Greek online music stores over all. Founded in August 2003, Greased Networks Inc manages the software and systems that cover all aspects of music content aggregation and delivery, including content acquisition, media storage, secure delivery, digital rights management and customer billing, to ensure that all rights holders are fairly compensated for their work. Further information about Greased Networks can be found on the company's website www.mpGreek.com

http://www.mpGreek.com

Greased Networks, Inc.

mpGreek PR Dept.

+1-(212)202-0696

info@mpgreek.com

New York, NY -- (SBWIRE) -- 10/12/2005 -- mpGreek®, the global leader in Greek digital music services, today announced that it has signed a deal with Lyra and MBI to sell their digital downloads internationally. mpGreek is the first Greek digital music service to sign with Lyra who own one of the oldest catalogues of Greek repertoire.

Under this new agreement, a selection of Lyra and MBI repertoire will be included in mpGreek's 'a la carte' digital download service. All Lyra and MBI repertoire will be served centrally by mpGreek directly to its users and will be protected with digital rights management software and will allow mpGreek users to burn a limited number of CD copies and export tracks to portable devices. A large variety of repertoire and music genres (Rembetiko, folk, Neo Kyma, ethic, traditional) as well as the work of important Greek composers and songwriters, will now become available for the first time for digital downloads on the web.

Mr. Panos Maravelias, Managing Director, of Lyra commented: "With no doubt, legal digital music downloading is the nowadays solution against digital music piracy. In addition, it leads the way to a new business model, yet not well developed in Greece, on how record labels can promote and sell music by taking advantage of new media technologies. We have already positive reactions from artists who are willing to help in any promotional efforts regarding legal downloading, as they understand that the Internet will soon be one of the biggest exhibition and selling points of their creative work. Furthermore, the Internet is definitely the most efficient way to attract music funs around the world to learn more about Greek music and consequently buy it. We are happy to have mpGreek as the first official partner in digital music downloading for Lyra and MBI music catalogues. I am sure that our collaboration will be constructive and fruitful as our catalogues include most respected artists and music titles. I hope that mpGreek is going to give new opportunities to music marketing and music distribution via the web for the benefit of the Greek music."

Alexis Kombogiannis, Managing Director of mpGreek said: "Lyra and MBI is one of the oldest Greek labels with very respectable repertoire to partner with mpGreek and we're proud to offer legal downloads to mpGreek users. The addition of the Lyra and MBI catalogue to the 75,000 tracks we already have available is great news for Greek music fans who value quality music and quality recordings."

About Greased Networks, Inc.
Greased Networks is a leading technology firm at the forefront of Greek music downloads with its service mpGreek. mpGreek has long been recognized as one of the largest providers of Greek digital music content in addition to being one of the largest Greek online music stores over all since February of 2005.
Founded in August 2003, Greased Networks Inc manages the software and systems that cover all aspects of music content aggregation and delivery, including content acquisition, media storage, secure delivery, digital rights management and customer billing, to ensure that all rights holders are fairly compensated for their work.

About Lyra
LYRA, General Publishing Company S.A, is the oldest and most significant independent company to have survived the invasion of the majors in the Greek music industry. Its creation, in the mid-60's, coincides with the dynamic flourishing of Greek songwriting, a development which LYRA not only brought to stage, but also nourished to a great extend. Presently, LYRA promotes some of the most expressive movements of popular music. At the same time, it invests heavily in important aspects of nowadays music business development, which include new media technologies like the Internet and the digital music distribution so as to capture a strong position in the world music map.

About MBI
MBI is the oldest independent Greek label. Founded in 1959, during its long presence in the music industry and through collaborations with many important artists, MBI has proved quality work and efforts to promote Greek music in Greece as well as abroad. Its catalog includes a large variety of repertoire and music genres like the '60s folk, rembetiko, and recently many pop acts.

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PR Dept.
Telephone: 212-202-0696
Email: Click to Email PR Dept.
Web: http://www.mpGreek.com