Am Mon, 6 Apr 2009 05:37:55 +0300 schrieb george_c <[email protected]>:
> 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. And they wonder that people prefer to make deal with a bittorrent client than with them? They seem actively want to avoid to sell anything. :( Andreas > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
