Cell phones are used to illegally download about 400 million songs each year in Japan, exceeding the number of songs legitimately downloaded by about 70 million songs. Legitimate downloads cost about 300 yen per track.
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A spokesperson for the Recording Industry Association of Japan. In an attempt by the industry to fight back, under a proposed system, when users download music files to their cell phones, the song’s ID information will be sent from the cell phone to a computer server, which will check the information. The server then judges whether the music file was distributed legitimately. If the file was copied illegally, a warning message will be sent on the user’s cell phone. (Yomiuri Shimbun)
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griff
the recording industry continues to do an excellent job of alienating its customers...
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gonemad
What if someone wants to listen to his music and has no reception? What if the server is down? What if the server doesn't know your music (any more)? How do they distinguish between music that has been downloaded illegally and music that has been ripped from a legally owned CD or came from other legal sources? How do they want to protect privacy? Why do they think anyone who is serious about downloading from illegal sources would care about a warning?
This attempt is either doomed to fail or simply means the end to combined cell phone and music players sales in Japan.
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