Yet Another Thing The Recording Industry Wants To Charge For: Endtones
from the oh,-please,-please-make-it-stop dept
This has to be a joke, right? Earlier this week we were noting how the greed over ringtone sales was leading the recording industry and the mobile industry to seek out other ways to charge you yet again for the same song you probably already purchased. Ringback tones have now been around for a little while (replacing the "ringing" noise that people hear when they call you -- meaning, yes, you're paying for someone else to listen to music as you'll never hear it yourself) and have succeeded mainly in confusing a lot of people into thinking that they dialed incorrectly. On Monday we were talking about SMStones, as the latest idea to get you to pay again for an even shorter clip of music... but that's already out of date. Now people are talking about endtones, hang-up tones and drop tones -- bits of music to play when a mobile phone conversation ends via people hanging up or a call is dropped. While there may be something to said for knowing when a call gets dropped (to avoid that awkward moment where you just keep talking and wonder why the other person is being so quiet), are there really people who are going to pay to have a special song play whenever they're reminded that their mobile operator's coverage sucks?
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If you have the access to alter ringbacktones, you're in the switch, and can make whatever billing changes you like. I don't think RBT's would be the first thing you'd go after.
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i have my gf as my background and custom pics show when peopel call. I have tune from Secret of Mana as my ring tone with the james bond theme for when my cousin calls
of course...im also the guy who torrents for videos and watches them on the computer because it has a bigger screen and better speakes than the TV
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How much $$$ goes to THE ARTIST
With a regualr song the artist only get a very small percentage of the profits. The RIAA says that is due to costs of marketing. The cost of people to make the Artwork ect ect ect.
But with Ringtones there isnt any real overhead. So the artists should get waaaayy more of a cut .
It would be interesting to see how much , i mean after all , the RIAA is only out to help THE ARTISTS (I cant believe I typed that with a straight face)
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Oh boy! It plays music!
The fact that so many people pay for ringtones is beyond me. I suppose I'm too old to appreciate this new, amazing technology (28 years...)
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Damnit...
"Every little thing that you say or do
I'm hung up
I'm hung up on you
Waiting for your call
Baby night and day
I'm fed up
I'm tired of waiting on you"
et al
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How ringbacks and droptones should work...
There is no reason why the rickbacks that I pick shouldn't be heard by me when I call someone else. If I pick the song, i'm not going to be confused when I hear it instead of ringing. Plus I'm going to get sick of it sooner when I hear it all the time, so I will want to buy a new one.
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P.S. please don't sue me because you're upset at what I'm saying and am anonymous :-)
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why listen to callers bad taste in music when...
that and back to the point of the article, whats the point of having music play for that last few seconds before you end the connection after the other person has??? (except like they said, being reminded that whoever lost the call has a bad carrier)
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Do we need to hear music every second of the day?
I am one of those people that listen to music every second of the work day. Why? because i am tethered to the computer anyway. and with my short commute to and fro work, sure, i listen to some CDs.
I guess that is why i don't get people walking around with white wires sticking out of their ears.
When i get home, i don't listen to music. Don't feel like it.
Of course, it may be because i only buy CD's from artists that use Non-RIAA based recording companies, and are not featured on "fuse" or MTV2", so the kids moan whenever they hear my stuff (you should hear them complain when i drive them to school).
Anyway, my point is this; Why? why even spend the cash so someone can hear a song instead of a reassuring ring? to be cool?
I dunno. i suppose i am too old to get it. Yep.
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