Investor Relations
Part
4: Music: Just the Overture
Blue Spike's initial focus on the $40 billion music industry
will create the necessary branding for the company and provide a stable
industrial foothold.
As well, it will serve as a platform for applications in other industries.
(The company would like to remind readers that Atari, the games company,
was an early licensee of RSA, using the cryptosystem to sign and authorize
games for is consoles, an important customer but by no means emblematic
of their contemporary customer base.)
Blue Spike generates revenues by licensing its watermarking
technology to companies in the media and broadcast monitoring industries
based on royalty models.
It is but the first of a long line of media-specific watermarking
tools that Blue Spike will be developing. Blue Spike's efforts will
ultimately span a host of industries, where the Company will pursue
the implementation of its technologies in any data consisting of digitized
samples, including video, still images, and sensitive documents such
as fingerprints, banknotes, and stock certificates.
Image archives, major motion picture companies, government agencies,
insurers, banking and finance institutions and a variety of other
organizations are expected to seek the ultimate protection afforded
by the Company's patented digital watermarking applications as well
as the progeny of the Company's extensive intellectual property estate
that are under development.
Blue Spike is the only watermarking company that has applications
for all digitized formats and has completed several versions of its
Giovanni® audio, still image and video digital watermarking technologies
as well as a copyright security technology known as the Giovanni®
Scrambler which encrypts data at the inherent granularity of the data
itself.
Blue Spike has also successfully initiated collaborative efforts with
leading technology companies to create an "end-to-end" content
distribution application, the Trusted Transaction Server (TTS),
thereby providing a complete solution for the electronic distribution
of content. This system, completed in the first quarter of 2000, incorporates
advanced encryption and compression applications from various technology
companies along with Blue Spike's digital watermarking application.
Digital watermarking will provide part of the systems required
for secure delivery of media.
However successful it is at fulfulling that mission, given the design
scheme it has put forward - a machine-locatable watermark embedded
in a consistent location - the very breadth of deployment will put
the technology into play in a very big way. That event will provoke
new market demand, new deployment scenarios and new research into
this powerful and flexible technology. No company is more prepared
- in its research or in its depth of intellectual property - to lead
this industrial movement than Blue Spike.
Please contact Blue Spike, Inc.Investor
Relations by e-mail for more information about investing in our
company.
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