I was referring to royalty rights. Amazon for example has the rights for the music content and not your carrier. And guess what, Amazon is not a carrier and therefore does not need to license the content for "wireless distribution" rights which is much more costly than wired. Yep, nuts, but thats how the labels think. Premium SMS monopoly (eol) so long sweetened the labels to also reap higher earnings just like the carriers did all this time, so why not ask for more I guess was their thinking.
Carriers can not get your music to your handset over their wireless networks unless they are also in the deal and have wireless distribution rights for such content. George | SlideME.org > > That's somewhat crazy, considering that my carrier is selling my a DSL > replacement Internet access solution. What goes over that "line" is no > business of the ISP (carrier), not more than what goes over the line at > my DSL connection. > > OTOH, one hears often that especially US carriers can get carried away > with trying to be customer unfriendly, with borked firmware, or even > special US handset models with less capabilities even in hardware. > (E.g. Nokia E62 which the US castrated version of the Nokia E61) > > > It has to mostly with agreements with carriers and licensing as > > carriers will act as resellers of the digital content.. then royalty > > issues come into play and the complexities just escalate... For > > example even Apple with AppStore does not allow in many countries > > AppStore downloads over carriers networks (even though Apple has > > agreements with), but require a Wifi connection only so the end user > > purchases via their own direct connection and so not to use the > > Well, that's what encryption and VPNs are for. A http-over-SSL > connection over the carrier is not really different from a > hhtp-over-SSL connection over some random Wifi connection. > > > carriers as the bearer. Overall its more of a rights issue than > > anything else and they don't want to take such risks. > > What rights??? That's sound similar to intellectual property rights > when someone does not want to come out and specify if he talks about > copyright, patents or marks. Which is a cheap discussion trick, as an > overlay of these 3 concepts has a multitude of properties that each of > these does not have alone ;) > > Andreas > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
