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Anti-Piracy Protection Becomes a High Priority as Video Content Increases and Costs to Entertainment Industry Escalate
DigitalMediaStocks.com Introduces USA Video Interactive Corp., Digital Watermarking Technology Developer, as a New Featured Company
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POINT ROBERTS, WA and DELTA, BC -- (MARKET WIRE) -- January 30, 2007 -- www.DigitalMediaStocks.com,
an investor and industry news portal for the digital media sector,
introduces USA Video Interactive Corp. (OTCBB : USVO ) (TSX-V : US ) as a new
featured company. USA Video Interactive Corp. is a technology developer for
the delivery of digital media, providing anti-piracy solutions to existing
distribution channels and enabling media distribution to expand into
interactive channels with Video-on-Demand. With the increasing amount of
video content available on the Internet, the level of piracy is expected to
surge making the need for anti-piracy policies and products a growing
priority.
Revealing the damage caused by piracy, the Motion Picture Association of
America (MPAA) estimates that the worldwide motion picture industry, which
includes foreign and domestic producers, distributors, theaters, video
stores and pay-per-view operators, lost $18.2 billion in 2005. More
specifically, the MPAA puts the cost to American movie studios in 2005 at
roughly $6.1 billion. According to the Canadian Motion Picture Distributors
Association, the costs in Canada have reached $118 million in losses due to
piracy issues.
A recent study conducted by the Institute for Policy Innovation (IPI)
expands the scope of cost assessment and in addition to the billions of
dollars in lost revenue faced by the film industry as a result of motion
picture piracy, there is also a significant impact on the U.S. economy as a
whole. The IPI report shows that movie piracy has generated an annual U.S.
output loss of $20.5 billion, $837 million in annual revenue loss and has
caused the loss of over 141,000 U.S. jobs.
Working to provide solutions to the growing global video piracy problem,
USA Video Interactive Corp. has developed its anti-piracy product,
MediaSentinel™ and is developing its MediaEscort™ for delivery in the
first quarter of 2007. Both products utilize the Company's SmartMark™
digital watermarking technology as a means for producers and distributors
to invisibly protect their content.
The Company's MediaEscort and MediaSentinel products automatically embed
invisible forensic information called SmartMarks into every video frame.
SmartMarks, which integrate with existing production technology, are
invisible, unremovable, "digital watermarks" embedded into every video
frame to protect digital video from piracy. These watermarks in turn equip
the content producers and authorized distributors with the necessary
evidence of intellectual property rights to prosecute against copyright
infringements.
USA Video Interactive's MediaSentinel video embedding technology is
available as a stand-alone workstation or through the Company's Anti-Piracy
service network utilizing a pay-as-you-go format, and is compatible with
current state-of-the art post-production master duplication systems.
The Company's MediaEscort product is a software application that plugs into
video server equipment and offers the same seamless video frame marking as
its stand-alone product, but is specific for video distribution over the
Internet. USA Video Interactive Corp., in an effort to assist the movie
industry in protecting their motion picture properties, has recently
entered into an agreement with one of the six major Hollywood studio
divisions, which has selected MediaEscort to protect their Internet
distributed content.
As the level of video content increases, in particular as the Internet
continues to grow as a media distribution channel, the need for proof of
legitimacy has become essential for law enforcement agencies to be able to
prosecute parties involved in video and movie piracy. Effective digital
watermarking provides the necessary evidence, submissible in court that can
help to facilitate the prosecution process.
To further enhance USVO's media tracking digital watermarking business, the
Company recently entered into a multi-year patent license agreement with
Digimarc Corporation, a leading supplier of secure identity and media
management solutions, for use in forensic tracking applications of
commercially available video, pre-release video, and home marketing
screening video.
USA Video Interactive Corp. also holds a Store-and-Forward Video-on-Demand
patent, which has been cited in approximately 206 subsequent patents, for
the transmission of video content over networks faster than "real time."
Video-on-Demand manages the delivery of compressed video to an end user
through an interactive and timely method. According to estimates from
Informa Telecoms & Media, online video services will generate approximately
$6.3 billion, drawing further attention to on-demand content and the
Internet as a growing delivery channel.
For additional information on USA Video Interactive Corp. (OTCBB : USVO )
(TSX-V : US ) please visit: http://www.digitalmediastocks.com/CO/USVO/
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