Tiscali revolutionises the world of online music

London, 13th November 2003 - After the enormous success of the Tiscali Music Club, launched in February 2003 which gave Tiscali members six months’ free membership, the company is once again leading the way with a new form of legal online music distribution. In its customary ground-breaking style, Tiscali has never ceased to explore new ways to make online music even simpler to access, and today’s new initiative from the number one Internet Communication Company, Tiscali Music Club... sets Music free.

From just € 0.75 per song, the new Tiscali Music Club offers users a vast range of services: from the permanent download of individual tracks or entire albums to the download of pre-released tracks by some of the biggest artists of national and international fame.

With the co-operation of OD2, the leading digital music company, and the use of Microsoft® Windows Media® Player 9 Series technology, starting from today Internet users in Italy, France, Germany, Spain, United Kingdom and soon in the Benelux, can now download individual songs at a special price of € 0.75 each. They can choose from a huge catalogue of over 220,000 tracks by no fewer than 8,500 artists, as well as additional musical material such as special performances, radio programmes, interviews, videos and a lot more besides.

The service is extremely easy to use and payment is both simple and flexible: from the "pay now" formula to the "prepay"one, with a gradual discount system to make sure that users get the most competitive prices.

Details of the offer: the new version of the Tiscali Music Club is even more simple and intuitive, so that ever-greater numbers of users can experience first-hand the advantages of legal access to digital music. These include the high quality of professionally encoded virus-free files and high-speed downloading. Tiscali Music Club offers the following services:

- Streaming - Before downloading, users can enjoy a 30-second free pre-listening streaming service of any track in the catalogue;

- Downloading individual songs - From just € 0.75, it will be possible to permanently and legally download tracks which can then also be burned on CD;

- Downloading complete albums - it will be possible to burn complete albums from just € 9.40

- Pre-release downloading - Users will have the exclusive opportunity to download some tracks premiered by the Tiscali Music Club a full 4 to 6 weeks prior to distribution in traditional record shops;

Payment can be made in a variety of ways:

- "Pay now" - users can put their music into a Tiscali Music Club "virtual shopping basket", and only pay for the single songs they take each time;

- "Prepay" - By pre-purchasing "credit", users can obtain discounts that increase with the size of the pre-purchase, giving them even more competitive prices. For example, by purchasing a € 69.99 credit, and thus getting a 25% discount, a € 0.99 track will actually only cost the user € 0.75, currently the cheapest price available on the European market.

Prepaid card price Spending value Discount Discounted price per song € 9.99 € 11.00 9% € 0.90 € 19.99 € 23.00 13% € 0.86 € 69.99 € 93.00 25% € 0.75

Tiscali Music Club users can buy their music using traditional credit cards (Visa or MasterCard).

As from today, all Net users can join the Tiscali Music Club free of charge, with no subscription costs, simply by clicking on the link http://musica.tiscali.it where they can make use of all the various services. Tiscali users can access the service directly with their own username and password.

The music content of the new Tiscali Music Club is provided exclusively by OD2, Europe’s largest distributor of legally authorised digital music. The OD2 catalogue includes tracks from the most important record companies like Warner, BMG, EMI and Universal, as well as those of independent labels. The partnership with Microsoft means faster downloading and use of the Windows Media® Player 9 Series, which ensures greater audio compression and improved sound quality.