Chinese Users Get Nokia Music Service Sans DRM 67
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from the market-paradox dept.
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."
Re:It doesn't make any sense (Score:2, Interesting)
DRM is pure retardation, where ever it is.
Re:It doesn't make any sense (Score:4, Interesting)
>>>Why would Nokia waste time implementing a non-DRM scheme just for China?
I would think it would be quite simple to dump songs online without DRM. Adding the DRM is the major PITA. So - Why doesn't China have copyright laws? Sounds like the US in the 1800s - copyrights didn't apply to foreign nationals like Charles Dickens. His works were widely distributed by US printers without giving a dime to Mr. Dickens for his labor. (Perhaps that's why 1800s US literacy was 99% - lots of free, cheap books available for reading.)
Re:They don't have DRM, but what is there instead? (Score:1, Interesting)
Excuse me, but do you realize that copyright violation is a nationalized industry in China?
Only if you apply US/EU copyright law to China.
Oh wait, China gets to make their own rules. It's not (yet) part of the New World Order.
Your copyright does not exist in China, hence it cannot be violated.
Re:Hypocrisy and showing their true colors... (Score:2, Interesting)
For the corporations it really doesn't really matter if piracy is fought or not. They exist for profit, and if there's profit in fighting piracy (or screwing customers, if you say so), they'll do it. As you've pointed out, given the high piracy rate in China it is probably too costly to fight piracy right now, and going drm-free is likely to yield richer profit margins.
Corporations are not naturally the enemy of our rights. They don't screw us for some ideological stuff like "rights". They screw us (or lick our asses) because there's a profit motivation in it, and for them everything else is just manifestly non-existent.
Re:It doesn't make any sense (Score:3, Interesting)
Pirates are offering much more convenient non-DRM files, and they are winning in the Chinese market. In order to compete
They are winning so well that Chinese consumers now expect it. I was in Beijing last year and at the major electronics mall it wasn't possible to find a something that DIDN'T already have a bunch of copied games and movies loaded onto it, even at the brand name booths.
Re:It doesn't make any sense (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:It doesn't make any sense (Score:4, Interesting)
Also, TV was a lot less popular then.
Funny. But the "TV" of the day was the cheap thrill stories that could be bought or traded, and that meant reading.
Also kids got their ass whipped for fucking off or behaving like morons. Even in the depression era, my Dad went to a one room school for the first 6 grades. If you messed around they punished you then and there in front of the whole class... that meant every kid in town, basically. And then when you got home the real punishment began... because the whole town knew you had embarrassed your family.
The end result was you payed attention and studied. If you really didn't want to be schooled then there was work waiting for you, not pay (the parents get the pay), just work, until you run away, become an adult and move out, or finish school. My Dad ran away at 15.
Planned for India too (Score:1, Interesting)
i'm a Nokia Music India user, and just before end of february, they sent out a email, the first part of which i have pasted below
"Nokia Music is becoming part of Ovi
Nokia Music will soon become Ovi Music. This means all the tracks you download will be DRM-free, MP3 files that you can now play on a PC, Mac or any personal music player! Plus, as part of the change to Ovi, we’ve enhanced our search capability so it’s easier than ever to find the music you want."
Re:China represents the DRM-free future (Score:2, Interesting)
Actually Nokia has Decleared that it plans to drop DRM in every country. Nokia is just implementing its new "no DRM" strategy to all new markets it is now entering. Nokia will probably drop DRM away from other countries soon enough:
more on this:
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/cna/cgi-bin/search/search_7days.pl?status=&search=Nokia&id=411983
Re:China represents the DRM-free future (Score:3, Interesting)