MCY.com Logs Historic Hits on the Internet with Michael Jackson & Friends Concert

MUNICH, Germany--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--July 30, 1999--

On-line music broadcast of benefit concert

notes over 10 million hits, breaking world record

The official tally is in and MCY.com, the innovative digital

music and entertainment Internet company, made history in receiving

over ten million hits in one day for it's live broadcast of June

27th's Michael Jackson and Friends benefit concert. Never before in

the history of the Internet has a single broadcast received a response

of this magnitude. In sharing this benefit concert with their online

audience MCY.com provided further awareness and support to UNESCO, The

Red Cross, and Nelson Mandela's Childrens Fund; the beneficiaries of

the event.

Adding extra Internet excitement, MCY.com's three camera crews

video-streamed the non-stop action backstage and in the VIP lounges,

taking their online audience for a rare peak behind-the-scenes of this

star-studded concert featuring Ringo Starr, Alan Parsons, Vanessa Mae,

Andrea Bocelli, Slash, Scorpions, and Zucchero among others. MCY.com

made it possible for Internet users to interact with the artists and

celebrity guests, hosting online chats in conjunction with Yahoo! and

providing exclusive interviews.

Having established the world's largest Global Area Network

through partnerships with mediaWays, a joint venture between

Bertelsmann and debis Systemhaus, a Daimler-Chrysler company and in

working with Yahoo!, MCY.com handled the heavy online traffic without

experiencing a single traffic jam.

MCY.com provides digital distribution of music through the

Internet at www.mcy.com, where the online consumer can digitally

download songs of their choice, at high-speed, directly to their hard

drive or mail-order CD's with a point and a click. Possessing the

technology to emerge as the online leader in digital music and

entertainment, MCY.com's cutting-edge encryption NETrax(TM) software

protects and secures artists and the industry in preventing

unauthorized duplication or music piracy. MCY.com is headquartered in

New York with offices in Los Angeles and Germany and plans to expand

operations into Asia and Latin America.