Ring-Tone Barons? Japanese Record Companies Raided 181
PuceBaboon writes "
The Asahi Shimbun is reporting that officers from the Fair Trade
Commission raided several major record companies in Japan, including
Sony Music Entertainment, Toshiba EMI and Avex, on suspicion of
creating a monopoly for the purpose of maintaining artificially high
prices on... telephone ring-tone tunes."
Ringtones?? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Ringtones?? (Score:5, Funny)
I get one over on them by putting it on silent instead.
In Capitalistic America (Score:5, Funny)
Re:mp3 as ringtone (Score:3, Funny)
Royalty free... for me!b
Public performance (Score:2, Funny)
The difference is that an iTunes Music Store purchased recording doesn't come with public performance rights to the underlying song.
Stupid friends (Score:4, Funny)
I have a friend who says, "$0.99 for a song from iTunes??? I'd never pay that much!" Then she happily blows $20 a month at $1.25 a piece on stupid god damn ringtones for her cellphone.
Re:It amazes me (Score:2, Funny)
How else are the rest of us to quickly identify and avoid said persons?