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CYDY News CytoDyn Uses Optional Web Movie for ``Doctors-Versus-Bankers'' Compromise

SANTA FE, N.M.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CytoDyn, Inc. (OTCBB:CYDY), an emerging growth biotechnology company, has placed a short movie clip (4.8 MB) on its web site at www.cytodyn.com. The movie can be downloaded and played by clicking on a link that appears on the Company’s Home Page. This can also be accomplished by clicking on the Company’s logo, which appears on every page of the web site. However, the movie clip will not be downloaded or played unless a visitor opts-in for the movie.

According to CytoDyn’s CEO, Allen D. Allen, today’s investment bankers expect corporate web sites to dazzle the investment community with a Flash movie that plays immediately when a browser goes to the corporate site. Yet, surveys have consistently shown that adults often use the Internet as a reference source and may find the Flash movies a nuisance if not an irritant.

Many corporate sites now include a “Skip Intro” button on their Flash movies to accommodate both the needs of their visitors and the expectations of Wall Street. However, Allen believes that forcing visitors to opt out of a movie after it is already playing reflects a measure of insensitivity toward the needs and feelings of concerned AIDS patients, physicians, and academicians who visit CytoDyn’s web site in order to mine information about cutting-edge, immune-based therapeutics.

“Although we recognize the need to include multimedia elements on our web site,” Allen said, “we believe that the optional movie reflects a more professional attitude toward the life-and-death issues that arise from our mission of developing first-in-class drugs for serious human disease.”