Well what I meant by the copyright permissions is that when you upload the song it detects what song it is. (On the ringtone site) And in order to upload it for other people to use you had to say that you owned it and what not and there was some kind of something you had to go through to prove that you did own it. For example, I wanted to have "Stay" by Sugarland as a ringtone. I uploaded it to my account and it asked if I want to let other people use the ringtone that I was going to be making. I thought, 'Hey, sure..Why not?" And when I checked the "Okay" box it popped up that the song was copyrighted and could not be shared. It then let me make my ringtone and send it to my phone. And that was that.
- Sheepy:
- They probably could have asked for copyright permissions (If I'm understanding you correctly), but it would have probably come at too high a financial cost for Limewire to be able to afford, given Limewire is something that millions used, and used on the whole for free. I'd imagine even if the RIAA get one percent of the amount of damages they're seeking it'll sink them completely.
October 27th, 2010 at 09:04pm