Warner Music Group is withholding its wares from Nokia’s mobile-music store, which launched yesterday, because the Nokia music-sharing service Mosh (it stands for “mobile sharing” … get it?) is being used to swap copyrighted material without WMG adding to its bottom line. While this move might hurt the perception of Nokia’s catalog, isn’t not giving consumers the option to buy your wares even more damaging to profits when all is said and done? Or does WMG think that Nokia’s store is a non-starter, and that any money it does see from selling its wares via mobile phone will be negligible at best–so this move winds up providing some cost-free “we’re serious about piracy” posturing in the media? [WSJ]
