Chinese Users Get Nokia Music Service Sans DRM 67
angry tapir writes "Nokia has launched a version of its Comes With Music download service without digital rights management (DRM) for the Chinese market. Currently, the service is available in about 30 countries, but in those countries the music, unlike in China, is copy-protected."
./ != researchers! (Score:2, Informative)
wtf are you all on about
nokia are doing this because they realise that China pirates as much as possible and it is difficult to make money Western-ways in China: "an acknowledgment of the difficulty in monetizing music sales in a region overwhelingly (sic) dominated by piracy." http://www.digitaleastasia.com/2010/04/10/nokias-comes-with-music-service-hits-china-drm-free/ [digitaleastasia.com]
this is an attempt by nokia to make some money in china in the face of overwhelming piratanical odds.
Re:It doesn't make any sense (Score:2, Informative)
> Why doesn't China have copyright laws?
We do, and I've met ppl punished for copyright violations. Heck, "severe" copyright violation is even a criminal offence in China (I believe this has something to do with WIPO treaties, but IANAL anyway).
Re:It doesn't make any sense (Score:2, Informative)
There are WIPO treaties with the goal of recognizing copyright across jurisdictions, but they're more about diplomacy & political bargains than about judicial cooperation between member counties. My feeling is that the USA is perfectly fine with trading IP loss in China for other things such as Chinese credit/investment/whatever.
Re:They don't have DRM, but what is there instead? (Score:1, Informative)
Bullshit, China has signed the Berne Convention in '92 [wipo.int], so the copyrights *are* valid.
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