Ringtone & Software websites

**pajerokid** · April 16th, 2004 05:15 PM

Thanks Jon! Kamusta na 6600 mo? May tinetesting kasi ako sa WAP Gateway namin eh. Fine phone you got! Champion sa download testing ko yan! A good combination of compatibility and large memory!

**Ungas** · April 16th, 2004 06:13 PM

Ok naman sya, natatawa ako sa sarili ko, nag install ako ng apps di ko naman ginagamit.

Kaso ang ayaw ko lang yung keypads, medyo maliit at dikit-dikit sya compared to my old 6250. Hirap ako magtext puro mali mali, kaya pagpasensyahan nyo na minsan kung may wrong spelling, panigurado mali ako ng pindot nun. :bwahaha:

**silver_corolla** · August 2nd, 2005 10:48 AM

Ringtone 'shoplifters' threaten music industry -- Qpass study
i.t.matters

’The ringtone market currently accounts for six percent to 10% of music industry revenues, making this a significant revenue leakage problem for the industry.’

SEATTLE/VIENNA -- More than one third of Europe’s leading digital content websites are unsecured, allowing users to "shoplift" music tracks and download them as free ringtones. The extent of the problem in Europe could have already cost the mobile and music industries an estimated €50 million in 2004, and a further projected €336 million in lost revenue by the end of 2007, a Qpass study showed.

A press statement yesterday said the Qpass study examined 100 leading ringtone download sites worldwide, comprising 42 mobile carrier portals and 58 online entertainment and music stores. Researchers found that at just over a third of the websites’ tested preview music clips could easily be converted into "shoplifted" ringtones by downloading them onto PCs and transferring them directly onto mobile phones at no charge.

Two thirds of websites offered preview music files between 15 and 30 seconds, which is the perfect length for a ringtone. In some cases, sites are ring tone specialists, which inadvertently give away their products for free.

The ringtone market currently accounts for six percent to 10% of music industry revenues, making this a significant revenue leakage problem for the industry. More than one-fifth of mobile users worldwide have downloaded content via their phone to date and this figure is expected to rise.

Ringtones are among the fastest growing content types. For the global music industry, increasingly coming under attack from declining CD and single sales, they have provided an important revenue stream.

"This is the mobile and cyber-equivalent of test-driving a car and then not having to give it back to the garage," said Steve Shivers, Qpass senior vice-president for Corporate Strategy and Development.

"When the trial is as good as the actual product, why should consumers spend money buying it? It’s so simple to shoplift ringtones that even a 12-year-old child could do it," he added.

"But consumers are not likely to be aware that this ability to gain ’free’ ringtones is actually a violation of the music industry’s digital rights. Meanwhile the music industry is putting its faith into the mobile industry to ensure its offerings are secured," Mr. Shivers said further. "The amount of revenue loss to both the mobile and music industries is concerning [sic] when this appears to be a complete oversight."

Qpass attributes this problem to the need for the mobile and music industries to enable users to preview music before they purchase it, an important part of the customer purchasing experience.

The study of digital rights vulnerabilities on mobile music webstores was conducted as part of the ongoing development of the Qpass Content Delivery Platform, which is designed to offer a comprehensive solution for presenting, exploring, delivering and billing mobile content. The Qpass solution is designed to enable operators and media companies to provide the important preview listening function securely through the use of Flash technology.

Qpass develops software for digital media and services that are designed to efficiently manage the entire digital supply chain over any network and any type of device. Qpass software work as an overlay to existing business systems including provisioning, billing and customer relationship management. Qpass customers include mobile operators Cingular Wireless, T-Mobile International (UK, Germany, Austria, The Netherlands and Croatia), Nextel, ALLTEL, Vodafone Ireland, and Boost Mobile; as well as leading consumer portals such as Yahoo! UK and Germany and Fantastic One.

Qpass's global headquarters are located in Seattle, Washington, USA, while its European headquarters are in Vienna, Austria.