Rogers Wireless banning MP3 ringtones on its handsets?

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Michael @ Jul 18th 2007 5:21PM

This DRM requirement is outside of the cellphone providers' control. I believe it is due to Canadian Law that requires new handsets to lock out MP3 ringtones, which were not purchased through the carrier.

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Donald @ Jul 18th 2007 5:54PM

And what law would that be, pray tell?

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Dster @ Jul 18th 2007 6:02PM

@Michael, are you referring to the law that sales of ringtones must include fees payable to recording artists, songwriters, and their representatives?

What in the world would that have to do with "requiring new handsets to lock out MP3 ringtones"?

Here's an intarweb tip: use teh google ( http://www.tehgoogle.com ) before saying stuff that you think might be true but you're dumb.

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Agent237 @ Jul 18th 2007 8:38PM

Rogers shipped a Sony Ericsson w300i to me by mistake. They let me keep it while my w810i was sent out. It was not locked. I could use MP3 files as ring tones.

This is why I was really pissed that the w810i was handicapped.

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jim jonze @ Jul 19th 2007 2:42PM

I read somewhere that the recording industry and music publishing industries consider ringtones to be a public performance of the work, which incurs higher royalties than a "private" performance which is their explainaion of why a 30 second low fi ringtone costs three times the price of a high qualiy digital download of the full song. (They have never come down conclusively, however, on the legal status of ghetto blasters).

Of course, it could just be an instance of the carriers being just as money grubbing as the music industry and wanting more ringtone download revenue and using the music industry as a scapegoat. Or it could be a little greed on both sides.

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Leroy Vargas @ Jul 23rd 2007 12:32AM

>> (They have never come down conclusively, however, on the legal status of ghetto blasters).

Do you mean the guys with boomboxes volume-maxxed, or just the boomboxes themselves?

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