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Ring-Tone Barons? Japanese Record Companies Raided

Posted by timothy on from the economy-based-on-pokeman dept.

PuceBaboon writes " The Asahi Shimbun is reporting that officers from the Fair Trade Commission raided several major record companies in Japan, including Sony Music Entertainment, Toshiba EMI and Avex, on suspicion of creating a monopoly for the purpose of maintaining artificially high prices on... telephone ring-tone tunes."

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  1. Er, MP3s? by kahei · · Score: 1, Redundant


    1 -- plug phone into USB port
    2 -- drag MP3 files into phone, unplug from USB port
    3 -- set one of the MP3s as the ringtone
    4 -- profit!

    This seems to work pretty well for me... am I missing something?

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