| Since the beginning of the first mobile cell phone, there | | | | because they do tell you are automatically subscribed |
| were ringtones. And they became instantly very | | | | to receive more ringtones where you have to pay for. |
| popular. But now some companies are trying to | | | | Also when you look a lot at those music channels you |
| squeeze every penny out of our childrens pockets. | | | | get some sort of brainwashed with those |
| Those companies are now making the ringtones | | | | commercials. In the Netherlands one of those |
| market a dark market. Will the ringtones survive? | | | | companies wanted to buy the whole commercial block |
| I'm not going to say the name of the companies but | | | | for themselves. But they couldn't because that was |
| you've probably seen some of the ringtone | | | | against the rules. So what did they do? They just put |
| commercials on the tv. Those commercials are most | | | | up a daughter company which has the same unethical |
| of the time on the music channels like mtv. They say in | | | | way of selling ringtones and with that company they |
| the commercial that you get a free ringtone. But if you | | | | bought the other half of the commercial block. So in |
| read the little text at the bottom of the screen, you'll | | | | stead of commercials you saw 5 minutes of ringtones |
| find that you have to pay $4,50 a week for a number | | | | to buy, and that every 20 minutes! |
| of ringtones and you get the first ringtone free. | | | | Now a lot of people think bad of ringtone selling |
| But many children who buy ringtones and realtones | | | | companies and websites and I can't blame them. But |
| don't read that text. And you can't blame them, it's | | | | there are really a lot of ethical ringtone websites out |
| really hard to read the text. I tried it myself and I had to | | | | there. But a lot of people and children don't know that |
| tape the commercial and pause it for a while before I | | | | because they've seen all the commercials everywhere |
| could read the whole text. | | | | of companies that rip you off. And believe me as a |
| But when you have bought yourself a subscription | | | | ringtone seller, it is not profitable for me to buy a tv |
| there is no way of getting unsubscribed but to block | | | | advertisement and sell ringtones the ethical way at the |
| the phone number at your telecom provider. I've heard | | | | same time. It just doesn't make up the costs. So you |
| stories of people who had to pay $180 bucks a month | | | | end up with only unethical commercials on the tv and |
| for just some realtones. Many people find it unethical | | | | nobody would notice the ethical ones that get |
| and so do I but their practices are not against the law | | | | destroyed by those companies. |