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iTunes: Don't Leave Home With Them
BadDoggie writes "Politech is reporting that your 'ownership' of music purchased from Apple's iTunes isn't what everyone considers ownership. According to the license, 'Apple may use technologies to verify' that you have not 'use[d] or attempt[d] to use the service from outside of the [United States]'. This includes Canada. Apple's 'technologies' delete the bought-and-paid-for files with no refund and no replacement when & if you leave the U.S." Update: 07/25 16:23 GMT by P : The post to Politech says the songs would "disappear," not be deleted; from the context, it seems they were merely unplayable, not deleted. Update: 07/25 21:34 GMT by M : Apple has contacted the guy, and is apparently making him happy. However, the question remains: Apple definitely doesn't want people buying new songs from outside the U.S., but do they intend to generally permit foreign users to reauthorize (in effect, retain access to) the songs they have already purchased? Apple's policy is very unclear on that point.
You know, I never knew that before. Thanks, Slashdot!
WHY?!
Sigh. I think its time to give up on online music, and since i refuse to buy cds anymore, Im just gonna go buy a kazoo.
All Troll + "offtopic" mods are meta moderated as "Unfair", because you abused the system.
What about a country that's under US administration? does that count?
Soon we will see the RIAA lobbying for the use of Millitery space-based lasers in order to do the same thing.
Just think, you are just crossing the boarder with a few CDs and ZAP! A huge laser blast from orbit evaporates your CD collection!
"use[d] or attempt[d] to use the service from outside of the [United States]'. This includes Canada."
Whew, for a second there I was thinking that we'd annexed Canada. Eh? I think that to be more clear, they should also specifically state that Mexico is outside the US. And, for those who are still in denial, they should state that New Jersey IS part of the United States.
First I can't bring my handgun into Canada, and now I can't bring my iTunes music?
...and *always* read the fine print. At least the first few paragraphs.
There's a reason Apple can't let people use the iTunes music service outside of the US (I'm assuming this, at least, since they would bring it to other markets if they could. I'm sure they're working on the legal bits). If they don't have the legality of the service nailed down in other countries, they sort of have to *not* let people in other countries use the service. It makes sense to me.
They've very clearly said the service is only available in the US for now. Yes, it sucks for non-US residents. Deal with it.
download it from kaz...
D'oh.
I want to drag this out as long as possible. Bring me my protractor.
Come on, Apple.
I see you jockin' me.
Tryin' to play like you know me.
Man, Apple, you're just making yourself look worse.
You know?
I mean, Everybody's just gonna feel sorry for me.
I mean, I do.
fhqwhgads
--Jasin Natael
True science means that when you re-evaluate the evidence, you re-evaluate your faith.
I bought a CD on Half.com that was originally distributed in Canada, but it still works in the US. I hope an RIAA swat team doesn't break down my front door and take my CD.
sorry, while I was posting, a whole lot of posts were placed which make mine redundant. if you actually took the time to read this, you are either a sad human being, a sadist, or at work. In all cases, I feel your pain. >:)
Microsoft in a nutshell:
--I am the end of all your dreams--
-NiN
"this is the gloaming"
radiohead
I often whistle or hum tunes while I play my iPod.
I don't want to run the risk of freely distributing the tunes, breaking the law and having them deleted to people who haven't purcahsed the songs. Please plug your ears when I walk buy. I will wear a shirt to advertise my presence encouraging everyone not to listen.
...laught at me when i wraped even my socks on tinfoil.
:/ its not translucid.
If theres any typo on this post, well, its one of the problems with tinfoil
I wouldn't mind if they rigged it so that it would delete music acquired outside the US upon my return home. That way I could ensure that any Celine Dion songs that my wife acquired in Canada would be gone when we return home from vacation.
Microsoft whore who built a DRM-crippled music store gets bitten by DRM. Ah, such delightful irony.
GCHQ Quantum Insert installed. If only our tongues were made of glass, how much more careful we would be when we speak
With physical CDs, you have to be more concerned with hemisphere as opposed to nation. If you take your US or Canadian purchased discs to Australia or vice versa, you will not be able to play them unless you get a converter.
This converter compensates for the fact that the Aussie discs are pressed such that the grooves go in the opposite direction of north american discs that thus they must spin 'backwards.' The converter is basically a mirror-like device that causes the disc to appear in mirror image to the laser, this causing your music to play forward instead of reverse. </joke>
Of course they have close ties: what kind of idiot would run a backbone through Northern Ontario when you could go through Chicago and Detroit? Supposedly there are so few big Canadian bands out of the West because the bus ride from Winnipeg to Ottawa introduces so much latency as to trigger a timeout.
IT Director: "Does it work in Europe?"
Universal Business Adapter Salesman: "You need an adapter."
Slashdot still doesnâ(TM)t support Unicode after it was added to the HTML standard in 1997.
"its no different to walking out of a nightclub and then trying to sneak back in."
I think a better analogy would be
"This is no different than David Geffen visiting you in your new, non-US home and breaking all of your CDs in half".
It's aboot time Canadian English gets some respect, eh?