[IP] Mobile phones open new front in war on music piracy
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From: Brian Randell <Brian.Randell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: October 28, 2005 4:34:28 AM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Mobile phones open new front in war on music piracy
Dave:
For IP, if you think its sufficiently newsworthy in IP-land
From today's (UK) Guardian newspaper:
Mobile phones open new front in war on music piracy
Robert Booth
Friday October 28, 2005
The Guardian
Children with the latest mobile phones are posing a new threat to
sales of recorded music by illegally sharing songs, according to
music industry leaders.
The spread of mobile phones capable of carrying hundreds of easily
transferable songs has opened a new front in a war against piracy.
Illegal downloading has already cost the British music industry
£650m in the past two years.
The chief executive of a company planning to sell mobile phone
downloads said the piracy problem caused by mobiles could be worse
than that caused by the internet. Martin Higginson, the chief
executive of Monstermob, told Music Week: "If piracy on the
internet was a tidal wave, this is going to be a tsunami."
The fears have been triggered partly by Nokia's plans to release a
phone early next year capable of storing 3,000 songs - enough for
about 250 albums. The Sony Walkman phone, launched this month, has
the capacity for about 500 songs and, although only 10cm (4in)
long, sports built-in stereo speakers.
With 900m tracks already available on websites for illegal
downloading, the growth of mobiles that play music raises the
prospect of millions more in people's pockets which can be shared
illegally without even connecting to a computer.
. . .
Full story at:
http://technology.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,16559,1602743,00.html
Cheers
Brian
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