Warner says no to Moshing

Warner Music is snubbing Nokia's new music store, due to a Nokia filesharing venture that Warner claims is a hotbed for illegal downloads.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Nokia's Mosh — a filesharing site — is used to distribute copyrighted material.

Not to be confused with Yahoo's latest social venture, Mosh was designed to enable Nokia handset owners to create and share content.

But the site can also be accessed online, and hosts copyrighted material buried "under a sea of user generated media."

Warner told Billboard that the two were far from a deal and that litigation was a possibility.

Meanwhile, Nokia claims it regularly polices its Mosh site and that copyrighted works have a lifespan of a couple of days at most.

However, the Register says that's far from true.

But filtering for copyrighted content is a notoriously difficult issue in the age of user-generated content. Plagued by similar legal demands, Google recently released an ID filter for weeding copyrighted content out on YouTube.