December 21, 2006

SK Telecom Fined For Incompatible MP3 Playing Phone

Mobile South Korean telco SK Telecom fhas been fined for crippling their music download service to only allow songs downloaded from the company's own music store to work on their phones. TechDirt reports.

"The article implies that the phone itself was set up with special DRM that would only play the MP3s from the service, and not other MP3s."

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