Lyon selects Cdigix to provide
legal downloads of music

July 25, 2005

Lyon College announced last week that it has selected Cdigix, the leading provider of legal digital media services exclusively focused on the college marketplace, to provide its services to its campus network beginning this fall.

Jay Zahner, director of Information Services for Lyon, said the Cdigix selection is the result of a desire to provide legal downloads of music and video in response to growing demand from Lyon students.

“The recent Supreme Court decision sent a clear message that the illegal downloading of copyrighted songs will not be tolerated,” Zahner said. “We are providing a legal, yet inexpensive, alternative that will allow students to have both access to music and freedom from the lawsuits that music companies have begun to file against users. At the same time, the Cdigix system will ease the burden on our campus network’s bandwidth.”

Lyon’s was among several new contracts Cdigix announced July 18 with colleges and university systems across the nation. With these additions, the number of Cdigix-partnered schools has doubled since January, from 12 to 24, reaching 310,000 students. More are expected to be announced shortly.

Brett Goldberg, president of Cdigix, said of these schools, “They are at the forefront of an important movement to equip students with broad-based, high-quality, legal digital media. We are honored to have been awarded the opportunity to provide their campuses with Cdigix’s comprehensive services.”

Cdigix is providing Lyon College with two distinct services. Ctrax, its digital music service, features the largest digital music library of any service, with 1.7 million legally downloadable songs, through a partnership with MusicNet, the world’s leading business-to-business digital music service provider. With a monthly subscription to Ctrax, students have access to as many tracks as they wish via a “tethered download.”

In addition, Cdigix is providing Lyon College with Cvillage, the company’s outlet for campus media distribution and social interaction. 

 “The demand for Cdigix’s services continues to increase, as more schools are responding to their students’ appetite for digital media by turning to the trusted source,” said Goldberg. “We attribute this increased demand to a number of key factors, including our broad range of digital media offerings; our guarantee that our files are free of viruses, spyware and adware; our ability to reduce bandwidth congestion over the university’s network; and the overall benefits of providing a legal alternative to illegal file-sharing networks.”

Cdigix is headquartered in Englewood, Colorado. More information can be found at www.cdigix.com.