Ringtone Copyright ???

Yo Mamma

This whole business of Cellular Phone Ring Tones and copyright has got to be one of the stupidest things I've ever heard about.

<sarcasm>God knows that whenever I want to hear "Tangled up in Blue", forget about loading up the song on my stereo or computer, I just dial up my cellphone and listen away!... It's almost like being there at an Bob Dylan concert!</sarcasm>

I don't care what anybody says a series of beeps on a phone is not the same as the song it's meant to resemble, and copyright should not apply.

But then again, according to the article:

More than $300 million in ring tones were sold in Japan last year. Nokia estimates it will make billions selling ring tones by the end of 2005.

Yeah, you read that correctly... Nokia will make billions selling ring tones.. that is absolutely ridiculous!

There's money to be had... and when there's money to be had, and when you're up against large greedy unethical corporations and greedy lawyers (which by the way are the reasons that all lawyers get bad reputations in general), then our rights, as well as fair play and ethics all go flying out the window.

I can't speak for anybody except myself, but no company will ever get a penny of my money to pay for nothing more than series of tones that sortof resemble the melody of a song.

And anybody who does pay for one of these is welcome to send a little of that extra money my way, because they have too much and apparently don't have anything better to do with it.

Lyconix

Ah yes, Dial-a-Ring and those countless other ripoff joints that you call to get a ringtone... they're on TV ads with the cost written in very small print at the bottom of the screen... usually something around £1.50 a minute for a fvcking ringtone!

I'm not trying to be sexist here, but its the girls that usually lap these kind of dial-a-ringtone lines up

Robbo

Far more idiotic are the bloody operator logos. What does a person who has "Sex Kitten" or "Up the Bhoys!" adorning their Nokia hope to project?

GoneShootin

i agree with you there Lyconix, it does seem to be a more female and teen female thing to do. especially as all the "pop" [pop in quotations as i dont think its popular with me] moosac can be found as ringtone aswell. much to the delight of the smitten teen in love with, say, noddy, no wait.....ricky martin

that said, ive got Thunderstruck by AC/DC on my phone, and the AC/DC logo, so im just as sad....

BEG*

All mobile phone users can be obnoxious and annoying, regardless of gender. I'm going to shoot the next person with the nokia ring tone. And as for those silly freshers who haven't quite grasped the cocept of putting their phone on silent in the library and another thing.. why do they stand everywhere? I was standing behind a crowd of them in the shop today and despite it being their turn in the queue they continued to chat amongst themselves despite my dagger looks. Once outside the shop I attempted to walk past them but they were walking in a row of four. Argggh
Today wasnt the best day..

phaxx

At least you will know that whenever you hear a stupid ring tone, it can't be your phone.

First thing I did when I got my phone was put a different operator logo on it. "Eircell" is too boring. It's a pic of snoopy sleeping now, and hasn't changed since I got it, and there's no way I'm putting a ringtone on it. Some friends of my mother's came over one day, one said "ooh your phone has all these cool ringtones! what one do you use?!"... I gave him such a nasty look.

A few months ago I got an SMS from some irish crowd trying to sell their ringtones and other crap... I immediately called eircell and bitched, apparently I'm marked down as never going to recieve another commerical sms message again, at least not ones they have any control over.

Yeah it's the wimmin alright! (heh)

seamus

I'll agree with the statement that's is mainly women who buy the damn things(and kids - 'cos they still think they're free, don't get the concept of paying for a phone call). I have copied ringtones far better than the ones you can buy, just give me the song, my guitar and 20 mins, and I'll give you something much better than the crap in those places, Btw - those figures come from Japan - can we really apply the same to the rest of the world? We know what Japan are like in terms of fads and pointless crap.