LOS ANGELES, CA (MAY 28, 2009) – Nexicon ( Pink Sheets: NXCO), a developer of next generation digital media protection and intelligence solutions, announced today that it has partnered with Univer-$ale to co-develop and market Nexicon’s MARC™ technology platform that tracks and monetizes illegal uploads and downloads on the Internet.
Nexicon and Univer-$ale co-developed DigitalRanger-Law Enforcement specifically for law enforcement agencies and international clients. Using Nexicon’s MARC platform, it was developed through a pilot program with French law enforcement authorities, the Gendarmerie Nationale, in an under-cover investigation to catch pedophiles exchanging child pornography and has already facilitated in the arrest of offenders.
“Until now, cyber criminals have been able to find ways to circumvent the laws and continue their illegal activities online,” said Bertrand (Burt) Marchioro, founder and CEO of Univer-$ale and former detective with the Gendarmerie Nationale . “Now with Nexicon’s technology, we can provide cyber detectives all the information and evidence they need to catch these offenders and bring the cases to court.”
Univer-$ale represents Nexicon's line of content protection and digital rights management solutions to European and Middle Eastern markets, including the motion picture industry, software and electronic games, ISPs, financial services, the publishing industry and more. The company helps media-owning clients increase profitability by recovering revenues lost to online piracy, while helping both government and private organizations secure and gather network information. The company’s product suite enables clients in both the private and public sectors, around the world, to increase revenues, reduce costs, reduce risk, and gain valuable insight.
For government clients, Nexicon’s MARC technology acts like a double-edged sword, capable of monitoring Internet traffic for anti-crime and anti-terrorism purposes, while at the same time securing governments’ own critical networks and ensuring regulatory compliance. By monitoring the public Internet, the product provides agents the ability to view illegal Internet traffic behavior of regular Internet users 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. In one day alone, MARC can scan up to 19.6 billion file transmissions, all viewable through DigitalRanger. DigitalRanger acts as a “command center” to highlight real-time security breaches of government networks and help government agencies ensure their data is protected.
“Nexicon is revolutionizing the way consumers, corporations and governments interact in the digital world,” said Sam Glines, president and COO of Nexicon. “In addition to helping government organizations, we help media-owning clients change their paradigm and implement creative solutions to mitigate the losses caused by digital piracy.”
“This relationship with Univer-$ale shows the strong ability for our MARC platform to diversify our offerings and target markets, and this is only the beginning,” added Tommy Stiansen, chief technology officer of Nexicon. “We will also soon be launching a retail product that will fill a void in the marketplace and further showcase the strength of our technology.”
About Nexicon
Headquartered in Los Angeles, CA, Nexicon ( Pink Sheets: NXCO) delivers next-generation digital media protection and digital media business intelligence products and solutions to many industries, including the motion picture and music industries, software and gaming, publishing, ISPs, financial services and government. It’s product line includes: DigitalRanger to identify those who illegally facilitate, promote, and profit from hosting or distributing copyrighted content; GetAmnesty that allows copyright holders to fight piracy and collect revenue lost from illegal downloads; YouScout that helps content owners store, distribute and manage their content on the most popular community-driven sites on the Internet, such as YouTube™; Envoy that helps ISPs manage DMCA notices for their subscribers; and more. For more information about Nexicon, visit www.nexiconinc.com and check out Nexicon’s blog at www.nexiconinc.com/corpblog/
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