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Apple's Terms No Longer Allow ITMS Purchases Outside of US

Posted by timothy on from the just-a-test-to-see-if-you're-reading-the-terms dept.

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?"

2 of 319 comments (clear)

  1. Re:You are subject to laws of where you live by Freultwah · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Do you realise that you just paraphrased the famous John Travolta quote re: pot from Pulp Fiction?

  2. Nothing new there I think by GrahamCox · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I am a British citizen living in Australia. I have a British bank account with a British credit card but registered to my Australian address. All perfectly fine. But I can't and never have been able to download music from the UK iTMS with this card. But neither can I use this card to purchase from the Australian iTMS, even though I can go into any store selling physical CDs and use the same card to buy a CD. Most other online purchases (but not all) accept this card without a murmur. This whole "credit card tied to a physical region of the planet" thing is stupid, broken, and out of step with the reality of more and more people being globally mobile.

    It's the same mentality that brought us the ever-baffling wonder of user hostility that is DVD region coding.