Record labels are fighting back through "creative means", but the revenue is not going to the artists. A ringtone sale is 100% pure profit, absolutely none of the money goes to the artist, it's split between the telecom and the record label.
Such a process is only possible because the telecoms themselves are locking people from doing perfectly legal things with their content, for instance using something you made in GarageBand can not be used as a ringtone, without essentially being forced to hack your own hardware. Even more progressive phones, such as the iPhone, has such features built in (See: iFuntastic), have been locked into absolutely ludicrous ringtone deals by AT&T, forcing customers to pay $.99 AGAIN on top of something they already have to buy through the iTunes music store.
The record labels are merely doing the same stuff in a different generation. It's continuing it's cycle of screwing over consumers just hits a new group of hardware and people.
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We think that since this is happening, artist's should have the right to automatically have a say so in what telecom companies have access to their ringtones, and at the same time, they should have the right to pick only the telecom companies who agree to pay them a share of the money earned from their ringtones.
THIS IS PROMISE
wow i think thats unfair i think artist should get a profit from ringtones
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