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06-12-2003 08:07 AM ET (US)
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Thank you for saying that. It's also worth adding that many of these "research" reports are PAID for by someone with a dog in the fight, i.e. a ringtone company. So IDC or Giga or whoever has incentive to show good numbers.
And, as you pointed out, no one ever goes and back checks these, so they're really as reliable as Jean Dixon and the National Enquirer.
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06-12-2003 09:57 AM ET (US)
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Speaking of ringtones, anyone from Sprint PCS out there who can tell me why I can't download ringers for my Samsung A460 off of ANY site? And, as a business user, I'm ineligible for Sprint's "Ringers and More" unless I upgrade to a Sprint phone plan with "Vision." Grrr.
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06-12-2003 11:42 AM ET (US)
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This is a really sad story. Sad because it's conceivable that people might spend $400M a year on irritating ringtones for their cell phones, sad because there is a cellphone ringtone industry, and sad because people will probably be charged with "pirating" cheezy Mission Impossible tunes.
Sure the research numbers may be greatly exaggerated, but this should be a story for the Onion, not a serious issue. What's next, playing royalties for whistling?
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06-12-2003 12:41 PM ET (US)
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At one point there were at least 10 different ringtone sites on the web, all of them were completely free. All ringtones are is an ascii file dictating note and duration, or in some phones midi files. (mine takes any *.wav you can throw at it). These normally get sent to the phone via SMS.
All of a sudden, every one of the sites disappeared and were replaced by a few new ones, wanting to charge you half a dollar (or so) to download a 30kb data file. It's a scandal.
Forget "piracy". These files are not copyrighted, if anything the original owner of the song has more control than the originator of the ringtone. It's crazy, in a world that is clearly moving to "free" media, there are those starting new businesses on the old mode. I just hope they don't encourage more law changes to try and make their business profitable.
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06-12-2003 03:04 PM ET (US)
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06-12-2003 07:19 PM ET (US)
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Any decent phone lets you program your own ringtones. Mine plays a snippet of the theme from The League of Gentlemen, which only took me 10 minutes to bash in.
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06-13-2003 12:11 AM ET (US)
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Get one that does wavs. You can sample anything you want as a ringtone, including voice. Completely free and DIY, or you can download thousands of ready made ones on the net.
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06-02-2004 03:16 PM ET (US)
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i would like to know how could i possibly set up a ringtone site and all the things used in the industry could anyone help?
if you can please can u tell me sites etc this is much apprecited thanks
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06-02-2004 03:19 PM ET (US)
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k refering to your previous message about free tone site which are they because my friend would like to now as he has just bought a new mobile(cell phone)
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11-11-2004 12:30 PM ET (US)
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Free Ringtones Links!!!! www.hiphopringtone.co.uk www.rigtonesdownload.co.uk
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09-14-2005 11:56 AM ET (US)
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Yes, I do believe paying the carrier for ringtones is a scam. I personally know one of the founders of ToneThis and it's great since I don't have to pay for each ringtone.
One day this should all be free...
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10-23-2005 10:36 PM ET (US)
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I am looking for completely free ringtones that i can dowload.
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10-26-2005 04:04 PM ET (US)
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I you to send me 5 free poly tone
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