ACME has developed a low-cost system for selling online digital content directly to consumers--easily and securely at price points as low as pennies.

For most medium to large businesses handling transactions from $5.00 up, credit card merchant fees are a tolerable cost and reasonably secure way of doing business. No widely-adopted low-cost system now exists, however, for accepting payments in the range of 20¢ to $2.00.

While Apple's iTunes, BuyMusic.com and the New Napster are among the new legal music aggregation sites finally selling low-cost songs on an individual basis, the minimum standard merchant processing fees (approximately 27¢+) and PayPal fees (approximately 20¢+) now represent the largest single barrier to the creation of a successful pricing model for the average online music buyer. The problems are similar for other kinds of microcontent.

ACME is preparing the launch of a complete solution that will enable music merchants -- and other microcontent providers -- to accept payments from 20¢ to $2.00 for dramatically reduced fees ranging from 5¢ - 15¢.

Over the past 6 years, ACME's founders have researched and developed technologies to enable secure, online transactions using debit cards as well as credit cards, with complete assurance of their authenticity using smartcard technology. Today, this combination of technologies presents significant new opportunities for leadership in secure online transactions and brings lower-cost payments to the Internet.

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