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Apple's Terms No Longer Allow ITMS Purchases Outside of US
JasonDT writes "I just accepted the new terms of service for iTunes and found that I will no longer be allowed to access US iTunes outside of the United States. This may seem like no big deal but, I am a US citizen living abroad and I regularly purchase and view TV and movies from AppleTV. Not to mention US citizens just traveling abroad. Does anyone know if this has been enforced or have themselves been affected by this?"
Similarly, Australians traveling overseas cannot access (their money in) the Australian iTunes store. Don't feel special.
No idea, but it's something you don't have to worry about if you get your media from other sources that don't keep on putting up artificial barriers...
This has nothing to do with being an USA citizen and all about where you are geographically located. If you have a credit card registered to a USA address, then you can buy quite happily from the US store (Apple isn't going to know the real story), but not if you have a non-USA address. This policy has been in place since day 1 of the iTunes store, and is in place because of the distribution rights set in place by the record companies, so in reality this is a non-story.
Jumpstart the tartan drive.
You know Spotify has done the same? A fair bit of music is unavailable in several countries due to licensing issues.
This isn't Apple, Spotify or any stores fault. It's the music business.
Yay for making it easy for consumers to buy music.
Try out Amazon MP3.
It's cheap, DRM-less, and easy. Plus
... it can't be used outside the USA either. Great alternative there.
Lars T.
To the guy who modded me down from perfect to terrible Karma - Apple haters still suck
It is neither of those. The copyright to mein kampf and other Nazi works fell to the state of bavaria, which by copyright simply doesnt allow any copying of mein kampf and hasnt since the second world war. If you happen to have one of the old copies from the WW2, or you bought it a state that doesnt reckognize avarias copyright on it, youre perfectly fine to do anything you want with it. Of course, there are several anti-nazi-agitation laws and selling the book on ebay may invoke some of those laws, but theres nothing specific to this one book and applies to all nazi memorabilia.
What??!?!? Do you not know how to transfer a file from one computer to another??? Find the file in your music library, email it to yourself or put it on a thumb drive or whatever, and load it on your home computer. When prompted, input your iTMS account info to get the DRM key to play the file (that is assuming you used a different iTMS account on your work computer than your home computer). Seriously, this "obscure bullshit setting in some hidden window" is just stupid talk.