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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. Ah-ha! by Wuffle · · Score: 5, Funny

    The inability of the record monopolies to embrace the internet strikes again!

  2. Or Just In Case You Decide On Accuracy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    The article doesn't know when it's going to happen.

    After Spetmeber is the msot definite term used.

    It "MAY" be sometime next year.

    Lot different than "at least next year." Makes it sound lik it's two years away or something.

  3. 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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    1. Re:Reading the article... by ChuyMatt · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Um... as one who just came back from an EU country and visited the EU buildings themselves, not to mention studying my brains out about it, this is just what the EU is for. to be treated like one *financial* country. What is more, having total-european standards for every shared product is a major part of that. With that goes the using of standard policies on things such as copyright and telecom and such. In practice, it is a tad more complicated, but that is just because their policies are more French, ie: artist work integrity centered instead of focus on profit and poorly worded royalties contracts. Probably something like the % that goes to the actual artists are what is holding this deal back.

  4. 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!