Mobile phones open new front in war on music piracy

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Brian Randell <Brian.Randell () newcastle ac uk>
Date: October 28, 2005 4:34:28 AM EDT
To: dave () farber net
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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