Unable to send copyright protected items?

wtf wrote:When i trie to send an item line a tone or a digital sound via bluetooth/infrared, my nokia 3230 says "Protected items can not be send. Send unprotected ?", then i click yes and it replies "Unable to send copyright protected item". Is there a way to get over that and send such items ? Thank you

So what you're asking us is, how do you pirate copyprotected stuff?

This happens to all content files (such as ringtones) regardless of where they come from. This is done to prevent copying of purchased ringtones and the like.

so the normal phones can send these items without any problems and the smartphones can't.. that sucks

A lot of normal phones (more recent ones) can't do this either. You can around this by zipping files up or similar.

Rafe wrote:This happens to all content files (such as ringtones) regardless of where they come from. This is done to prevent copying of purchased ringtones and the like.

Absolutely everything? It doesn't check for a copyright flag or anything like that?

It checks for the file content type (if the file type is on a, so called, built-in Closed Content List, then built-in apps refuse to send it), or if the file is protected by OMA DRM, then for the license (if it is forward-locked, then it can't be sent).

More about DRM stuff on Nokia devices on, e.g., http://forum.nokia.com/drm

It does depend on the phone, but yes some phones will refuse to send ringtones files even if you created it yourself. (i.e. the file type is on the closed content list)

just rename it lorr (wtf) when using Fileman on seleQ just rename it such as abc.mid to abc.mid5 or anything n after u send it u can rename it back. this happens when u're using bluetooth/infrared only. in MMS i still can hack that