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Why pay for premium wall-papers, when I get them for free?

Started by Ewan · 8 months ago

Is just the question I’m asking!
You see, the other day I was sitting in the School Library working hard on a piece of History work, when a class came in and began working on the available computers. The class was a mixture of boys and girls who were thirteen/fourteen years young.% ... Continue reading »

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  • JOhn

    8 months ago

    Ringtone industry = solid proof of a Digital divide.
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  • Kip Hakes

    8 months ago

    I think it boils down to laziness in some cases. It's easier to buy a ringtone - rather than download a song, convert it to MP3 (if not already), put it in an editing package, splice out the bit you want, send to phone. It's like buying chopped mushrooms from the supermarket really - people do, because we can be lazy.

    K
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  • AJ

    8 months ago

    The young have no money but lots of time whereas the rest of us have no time but loads of....negative equity??

    Teeagers today are just wired never to pay for anything off the Internet. The look on my cousin's face when I told him I have an Itunes account. He was like, are you MAD? Personally, I just can't be bothered converting files etc etc.
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  • Samantha

    8 months ago

    Yeah, I agree. Then again, I'm someone who wouldn't eat pre-chopped mushrooms. For some bizarre reason I enjoy cutting them myself. However, that's besides the point.

    People are lazy, but it's just bizarre how much money is to be made from it.

    Samantha.
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  • Kip Hakes

    8 months ago

    Hi!

    I'm out of office all day today - I will pick up your e-mail via my
    Blackberry - but it won't be actioned until tomorrow.

    Thanks

    Kip

    --
    kip hakes
    designer

    kcjh design

    www.kcjhdesign.co.uk
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  • TerenceEden

    8 months ago

    Two choices - which is for you?
    1) Search for an image online. Go through several pages. Select the best image. Download. Find a good image editor. Crop the bits that you want. Resample to phone screen resolution. Transfer over.
    Or,
    2) pay 50p, click, download.

    Personally, I wouldn't pay for a picture or a ringtone because I have the time, patience and - above all - skill to create my own.

    I'm also prepared to wait a few weeks / months after a DVD is released so that I end up paying £5 rather than £18.

    But some people really have no patience. £2.50 represents about half an hour of work (assuming minimum wage) - so would you rather spend an hour doing something boring like creating your ringtone, or pay someone else to do it?

    It's one of the reasons why I don't believe DRM for digital content is needed. It's so trivially easy to transfer unprotected content around - yet the premium content market is hardly in the poor house.

    T
    (Usual work related disclaimers here)
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  • Kip Hakes

    8 months ago

    Yeah - that's what I meant - but much more eloquently put...

    K
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  • edgar1013

    8 months ago

    google the name of the wallpaper you are looking for and click on images. bingo.
    ringtones, themes, and wallpapers are endless in zedge.net as well as many other mobile forums.
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  • South77

    8 months ago

    Just got me a dizzee ringtone from there. Might even get the bus home to try it out.
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