Although this story operates on the fringe of the wireless spectrum, it sounded interesting enough to post on. While this highly-controversial ringtone situation made the news, could this set off a new wave of youtube-inspired artists to create their own wireless handset ringtones to make available -- for a price, most likely -- to potential buyers?Who knows -- but as ringtones continue to be hot sellers in the wireless industry (to the tune of hundreds of millons of dollars annually), we can see the day when ringtones are either created and traded for free over the web, or perhaps auctioned on ebay even. It's a weird world out there, circa 2006.
1. Great call. Our company, Xingtone (www.xingtone.com) has a web-based service that lets people post their sounds/music for sale as ringtones. You can also give them away as promotion. You do need to have the right to distribute the audio content. See http://xingtone.com/mstoresamples/creator/
Posted at 8:01PM on Jun 1st 2006 by Eric