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ITunes Music Store launches in 4 More Countries
Paal Unanue-Zahl writes "I've just published the news in our blog, iTunes Music Store has opened in Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Switzerland. As for Australia, no dice. It seems that a record company is holding up the launch for the Aussies. We are waiting for official confirmation from Apple later on Tuesday, but purchases are possible with credit cards from Norway and the country icon shows up in the 'Select country' page. Finally."
It's about time this service came to Sweden. Providing legal ways to conveniently download music while compensating artists is good news for consumers and artists (and record companies ;-) alike.
;-) But I don't think I should expect it to work fully. It's not even officially launched or anything!
Most people I know (including myself) download pirate copies off the Internet because of sheer convenience. I'm simply too lazy to go to the store and buy something (which might not even be in stock, but on order only), when I can just download a copy off the Internet and get it instantly.
Now if the industry could just get a similar model going for movies and TV shows instead of suing file sharers...
Can the media industry take note... I don't pirate because I want your stuff for free, but because it's more convenient. You can't compete effectively against electronic delivery with outdated models based on shipping optical discs to people!
Unfortunately though, the iTunes music store doesn't seem to accept my credit card information. (No, I will not post the information so you can check out what's wrong
I for one welcome our new ABBA overlords...
And dammit, now I have "Dancing Queen" in my head.
I tire of having to spell out every little thing in my replies - but for the person who marked my post as off-topic:
Sony are starting a new online music store called Connect which is direct competition with Apple's iTunes store.
There is an unnamed record label who are hampering Apple's progress in Australia (and potentially New Zealand).
Sony owns a record label.
Thus: Sony are probably the company who are slowing down Apple's progress.
sigh.
My maths may be wrong and I may be mistaken in my assumption, but please don't mod if you don't understand the topic you're moderating.
The reason girls and Windows users don't understand UNIX is because all the documentation is in Man files.
but the sony guy showed up at Mac World this year! how can sony be for Apple, and against Apple?
Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
Not unless its already in the US store. You need a billing address in the country of the store you want to buy stuff in.
Worse than that, the credit card needs to be issued in the country where you want an account.
I live in Belgium, have a credit card, but the card is not issued in Belgium - therefore Apple rejects my attempts to sign up to iTMS.
Nope. Shimatta is a Japanese expression equivalent to "dammit". The Japanese word for "shit" is kuso.
Ah, I've taught someone how to swear in another language...my day is now complete.
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