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"MP3.com welcomes the opportunity to infuse Vivendi Universal with our robust technology and infrastructure products and services. Mr. Messier's goal of technological excellence and multi-platform access and distribution of content will be an area of great emphasis for MP3.com."
——Robin Richards

ROBIN RICHARDS UPPED TO MP3.COM CHAIRMAN/CEO

Former MP3.com President’s Hilarious "Nutty Professor" Character Was Deciding Factor
Less than one week after MP3.com was acquired by Vivendi Universal in a combined stock and cash transaction, the founding president of MP3.com, Robin "Peter To Pay Paul" Richards, has been named the company's chairman and chief executive officer.

"As MP3.com's founding president, Robin Richards played a major role in the company's rise to global prominence," said Vivendi Universal chief Jean-Marie "Dance This" Messier "Around." "He possesses the leadership, innovation and dedication required to propel MP3.com to new heights and I am confident that he will make tremendous achievements within the Vivendi Universal Group. Now, if he would only learn to bring me a baguette with my demitasse, everything would be parfait!"

"I am honored to lead MP3.com into the next phase of its growth," said Richards, who served as MP3.com’s president beginning in 1999. " We will stay the course and continue to grow in the digital music space. Further, we look forward to launching with impact other online media initiatives. Hopefully, while staying out of the courts at the same time."

"MP3.com welcomes the opportunity to infuse Vivendi Universal with our robust technology and infrastructure products and services," Richards added. "Mr. Messier's goal of technological excellence and multi-platform access and distribution of content will be an area of great emphasis for MP3.com, as soon as I figure out exactly what that all means. We are proud to become a teammate of the great companies that make up the Vivendi Universal Group."