December 26, 2007

Why You Shouldn't Download TV Shows On Your Cell Phone

I'm pretty excited about some of the innovations in mobile entertainment I think we'll see in 2008, but we all still have to remember that distribution of forms of entertainment such as video to your cell are still very inefficient and therefore very expensive. A 29 year old British factory worker named Ian Simpson found this out the hard way after downloading "20 to 30 TV shows and 4 albums" using the Vodafone provider for his cell phone service. His cell phone bill? $54000. Unaware of the charges he was racking up, Simpson was surprised to find his service disconnected one day and found out about the substantial bill after phoning Vodafone to find out why he had no service. Simpson is in tough now though as he states all he can afford to pay for at the moment is the room in which he lives. He hopes Vodafone will go easy on him and it seems they might even though he ran up the charges legitimately. Vodafone has said that they will "try to come to some sympathetic arrangement" with Simpson, but if he can only pay for a room, he better hope the company's sympathy is extreme.

Via TorrentFreak