Japan’s plans to ‘brick’ cellphones attempting to download music
The funloving Japanese government and telecom-music industries are planning to ‘brick‘– render cellphone incapable of playing the music—if the user is tries to download illegal music.
Govt, private firms to tackle cell phone music piracy
The Yomiuri Shimbun (Sep. 7, 2009)—The Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry and the telecom and music industries plan to jointly introduce a system to prevent cell phone users from downloading illegally distributed music files to their cell phones via the Internet…
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…the envisaged system, when users download music files to their cell phones, the song’s ID information will be sent from the cell phone to a computer server, which will check the information….If a user continues to download music, the server will either terminate the downloads or render the phone incapable of playing the music after it has been downloaded.
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September 8th, 2009 at 12:26 am
That’s not really a brick. A brick would be rendering the phone completely inoperative.
September 8th, 2009 at 12:38 pm
Good Lord!
why downloading mp3 from your cell when you can download songs directly to your pc? my opinion about it, is, japanese ppl are too lazy, they should use more computer and p2p softawres to download music :D
September 8th, 2009 at 2:45 pm
Yes some Japanese people are lazy and just want to download directly using their keitai/cellphone.
However, many Japanese have 3G cellphones with a flat-rate data plan, which means they love using such free mobile downloading services.
In addition, many people–especially young people– don’t have computers and use their cellphones for all their computing needs (Japanese is just as difficult to type on a cellphone as it is on a computer).
September 26th, 2009 at 8:23 am
Immersion of kids make them hyperactive? Drugs improve them being a Squint. Rest everyday and decide your age. Councilors have grave importance, so please flush twice.
November 7th, 2009 at 9:59 am
You look great! So healthy and happy. How are you feeling? Sorry, I know this is about your music, but I just had to check in and see how you are doing.? Best to you.