The Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ) is pushing for an agreement with music download sites and other entities in Japan that would see digital rights management (DRM) copy protection software being placed on mobile phones in the country. In Japan, handsets are branded, supplied and managed by the network operators themselves. Every year, about 330 million tracks are sold legally ... [ read the full article ]
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Personally, I think that this plan, if passed, would be taken out almost immediately. The uproar from the people would absolutely insane considering almost literally everyone has a cellphone in japan, and listens to music off of them.
Originally posted by 21Q: Personally, I think that this plan, if passed, would be taken out almost immediately. The uproar from the people would absolutely insane considering almost literally everyone has a cellphone in japan, and listens to music off of them.
Ye, I don't see it as a realistic goal at all, it's simply unbelievable to think that any agency should be allowed to automatically check _any_ details on what music you try to listen to, it's a gigantic privacy violation.
Privacy? Since when does anyone truly have privacy; you may not know it but your own gov't likely knows when you take a piss each day just by monitoring water/sewage consumption and hydro bills. We haven't seen privacy since the early 1900s and it has been getting worse than ever as the digital age grows.
Forget that the issue even stems on privacy; it's the fact that legal songs a person owns because they bought it on cd may not be able to play on a cell phone. How about "free" songs from indies or even samplers from recording artists? Oh wait according to RIAJ, and others like them, "free" - is not existent in any music of any form. And as long as the gov't agrees they can make money of these idiots ideals, they'll continue to approve such stupid legislation.
