Throwing around quotes about the damage Music Phones might possibly do to the mainstream muisc producers along the lines of "If piracy on the internet was a tidal wave, this is going to be a tsunami" really doesn;t explain the problem. The Guardian reports on the next evil to infest our phones. Obviously they're forgeting that a 5mb mp3 file over GPRS will probably cost more than buying the next Clone Boy Band album. Further commentary at MoCoNews and Ringtonia.
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Meh all it means is that the kids aren't waiting 60 minutes to share the music like we did when I were at school copying tape to tape. Surely the music industry didn't really think that all those blank cassette tapes that woolworths was selling were going into "legal" use... At least as they grow up the stuff isn't going to waste space, I look at my copied tapes and think of my childhood "whatever possessed me to tape that?".
well... I suppose a really big mp3 would cost more than an album. And that makes them.... what? More money... that's what. They're just too blind to notice it yet.