Finland's Wireless Fast Track Thanks in large measure to mobile handset pacesetter Nokia, this small nation, about the size of Montana with a population of some 5 million people, is where the rest of the world looks for wireless guidance. But so far no one is willing to put it together. Printer friendly version.
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British-based Envisional claims that the craze for personalization has brought intellectual property theft on a mass scale. And while admitting it is very difficult to estimate the true scale of the problem, they believe there may be hundreds of thousands of ring tones unlawfully available. But we know one site saw more than thirty thousand downloads of a single ring tone in a two-month period. The survey found that the ring tones were most popular with teen-agers, with tracks by Eminem and S Club 7 among the most widely circulated tunes. Clare Griffiths, a lawyer at Intellectual Property specialists Briffa, says that the legal issues for ring tones are extremely complex.