Disney sez: No Bluetooth for you

Turns out that it's not just the carriers that are down on Bluetooth (Sprint and Verizon have this nasty habit of demanding that Bluetooth be crippled on some of their handsets) — apparently Walt Disney is doing a pretty good job of it themselves with their complete unwillingness to let their wireless partners use Bluetooth to transfer Disney-themed mobile content (like ringtones and wallpaper) directly to handsets until some sort of secure DRM system is in place
(feel free to insert your own snotty comment about no one wanting Disney crap anyway). They're worried about consumers illegally sharing ringtones, but they needn't fret much longer—the very Orwellian-named
Open Mobile Alliance is already planning to introduce a new standard for locking down mobile content later this year.

[Via GigaOm]