News Release: Macrovision Wins 2003 Software Industry Award for Best Security Initiative

SAN JOSE, Calif. — October 30, 2003 — Macrovision® Corporation (Nasdaq: MVSN), the world’s leading provider of software licensing technologies, today announced it has been awarded the 2003 Software Industry Award for Best Security Initiative. Macrovision was chosen for its industry-wide leadership in software protection and security throughout its comprehensive portfolio of products. Software Business Magazine’s Annual Software Industry Awards recognize software companies that have displayed broad leadership with their initiatives and products, distinguishing their brands and strategies from a pool of nominations submitted by many successful software companies.

“Macrovision was a clear winner in the Best Security Initiative category,” said John G. Cargile, managing editor of Software Business Magazine. “Building on its strong foundation of flexible software protection and licensing solutions, Macrovision’s continuing product innovations, and focused company direction makes it stand out as the industry leader.”

“We’re very honored to have received this prestigious award recognizing both our product excellence and company vision,” said Dan Stickel, executive vice president and general manager, Macrovision Software Technologies Group. “This industry recognition underscores Macrovision’s ongoing commitment to delivering innovative new solutions that enable software companies to realize further benefits and profits from their products.”

The Software Industry Awards were presented at the Software Business 2003 Conference in Boston, Massachusetts. Software Business Magazine evaluated hundreds of submissions to select the final winners in ten categories, which included Best Security Initiative, Best Development Solution, Best Enterprise Integration and Best Product Development.

About Macrovision
Macrovision Corporation develops technologies that enable content owners and software publishers to securely and flexibly distribute their digital products to their customers. Macrovision is the market leader in software licensing, digital rights management (“DRM”) and copy protection technologies for the software, video, games and music markets. Macrovision’s software licensing platform enables technology companies to easily price, package and protect their software. The company has proven electronic licensing solutions, identified by IDC as having the #1 market share. Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with international offices in London, Frankfurt, Tel Aviv, Tokyo, Taipei, Hong Kong and Seoul, Macrovision can be found on the Internet at www.macrovision.com.

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