Verizon Wireless Sued Over V710 Bluetooth Limitations
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Does anyone know if it's possible for a BREW developer to tie an application to the ESN in the user's phone? In other words, is it feasible for copyrighted BREW content to be restricted to one particular phone, perhaps by means of some ESN-based authentication during the initial download.
If this is even possible, wouldn't it have been easier for Verizon to engineer this into the v710 (with cooperation from developers), rather than to tweak the phone's Bluetooth implementation?! I know diddly squat about BREW, but this would be an elegant solution to the "problem".
(Also, kudos to the Bluetooth SIG for their strong condemnation of practices like this which do a disservice to the consumer.)
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I cant say anything about BREW, but maybe its the same. I have Cingular, and if I buy a ringtone, game, or a wallpaper, it does not let me send the file through MMS or through Bluetooth because it says the file(s) is copyright protected. So I'm sure if it's like that with Cingualar, and even T-Mobile for that matter, it maybe like that with BREW, and if it isn't, it easily could be. Therefore, it leads me to believe what you said. Instead of crippling the Bluetooth, they could have just not allowed purchased games, ringtones, or wallpapers to be exported from the phone by MMS as well as Bluetoooth, and even TF card.
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