On 27 Apr 2004 at 9:14, Curt Sampson wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Apr 2004, Mark Frieser wrote:
>
> > What percentage of all ringtones downloaded are pirated? We're
> > estimating 20-25%.
>
> How does the stuff get pirated? With Japanese phones, at least, it
> seems to be basically impossible.
Some Western handsets like Nokia's Series 60 range make it very simple to access
files on the hand set so that is one source of piracy.
If a mobile phone operator allows users to browse to any URL then there are lots of
resources on the Internet for free ringtones, wallpaper and midlets. There are even
sites allowing users to set up their own WAP site for distributing mobile phone
content - all they have to do is upload the content. Where this content originates
from is debatable, with the case of ringtones I suspect a lot of it is produced by
amateur musicians.
Steve Oldmeadow
> > Do you think that images, digital music and other mobile music will be
> > pirated in the future in large numbers?
>
> I think a lot of it depends on whether the on-line content vendors get
> themselves together with pricing. I'm not holding out a lot of hope for
> the music side, especially in Japan, where Japanese CDs are still 3000
> yen. (It's considerably cheaper to buy import CDs than domestic ones
> here.) But other content vendors here, such as foreign movie studios,
> seem to be getting clue in a big way. There are a substantical number
> of DVDs priced at 1500 yen here (half the price of a domestic CD!), and
> the majority of DVDs are 3000 yen or less. For me, at any rate, DVDs are
> cheap enough that it's not worth time and loss in quality to download
> them from the net.
>
> cjs
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Received on Tue Apr 27 08:20:04 2004