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Probably not for a while, but though it's a little light on numbers to back up the claims of the ringtone's demise, this Digital Music News story quotes several phone/music industry types still wary, several years after the technology was introduced, about getting users to shift from buying your average blip-of-Linkin Park tone to buying a download of the whole damn song over their phones. DMN muses on the format's eventual burnout, which brings a tear to the eye of this ringtone addict. Then again, with Nickelback's "Rockstar" the currently the No. 1 ringtone on iTunes, perhaps the format needs to be put down: More »