Mobile Content Portal Lets You Move Content To New Devices

from the it-can-store-what-you-have dept

A mobile content player that has struggled in the past is trying again with a new name and a new strategy to differentiate it from others. It's deceptively simple: when you buy something, they keep a record of what you bought so that if you later switch mobile phones, you can just login and re-download all the content you already purchased. It's the basic online locker strategy, recognizing the power of connectivity when it comes to digital goods. Others have tried it with regular downloadable content, but they often run into legal issues as the entertainment industry isn't necessarily comfortable with such an arrangement. They, obviously, have no qualms about asking you to buy stuff again if you switch devices. What's not entirely clear, however, is how they're doing this. Google's video offering has a similar feature, but in order to do so you have to give up quite a bit of privacy, by agreeing to "check in" every time you play a video. From the description in the article, it doesn't sound like this system does that, but then it's not clear how they prevent you from downloading the same content to many, many devices which would obviously upset the entertainment industry.
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  1. identicon
    giafly, 1 Feb 2006 @ 1:46am

    Not the whole industry

    "upset [some] in the entertainment industry", not all. For example there are open source games and free music.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  2. identicon
    sarah vicklandom, 20 Sep 2006 @ 9:36pm

    redownloading all my music

    okay.. so i had itunes, and i bought like 500 and some songs.. but my computer like broke down and would not let me turn it back on.. so i had no access to my itunes.. so then we had to get rid of my computer and the computer guys told us that all my songs were lost.. so how exactly can i just redownload all of my purchased songs.. like i need exact directions.. please someone help me???

    xo sarah

    link to this | view in thread ]


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