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Euro iTunes Store Delayed

Posted by pudge on from the there-is-no-good-music-in-europe-anyway dept.

pnjman writes "Due to the record labels being unable to agree licencing issues, the European iTunes music store has been put back until at least next year."

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  1. Reading the article... by squiggleslash · · Score: 5, Insightful
    ...it appears to me that Apple has made the somewhat common mistake of treating Europe as a country. It isn't. It's a collection of countries with a growing trade-orientated body joining most of them in some fields but by no means all. It's almost as absurd (I said almost) to treat Europe as a country as it is to treat "North America" as one.

    Apple would do well to look at rolling out iTMS in individual countries rather than attempt to do this as a bloc. Other international retailers, such as Amazon (which has amazon.co.uk and amazon.de) have already learnt this lesson, and built successfully upon it.

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  2. Take what they can get by fingers1122 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The record labels should take whatever they can get. Basically, they have two options: (1) Get some money when people legally download songs. -or - (2) Get no money when people download songs illegally with p2p clients. The record companies are getting greedy; they should take what they can get and be happy!