Because I can cover my ass this way. Average user is supposed to know that downloading music for free is illegal, but in case he downloads it from allofmp3.con he can cay that he "legally bought" this music and didn't know that they operated illegaly.
Actually, it is far more useful to have country codes, not language codes. In some countries (especially smaller ones) a lot of population has native language different from the state/official language. For example, if I am a Spanish speaking person living in the USA, I would be more interested in finding information about prices/products/offers/etc of Apple in the USA, not in Spain. And I would go to apple.us and try to switch website language to Spanish if they provide it.
Language division makes sense for an encyclopedia, but not for a corporate website.
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Because I can cover my ass this way. Average user is supposed to know that downloading music for free is illegal, but in case he downloads it from allofmp3.con he can cay that he "legally bought" this music and didn't know that they operated illegaly.
Actually, it is far more useful to have country codes, not language codes. In some countries (especially smaller ones) a lot of population has native language different from the state/official language. For example, if I am a Spanish speaking person living in the USA, I would be more interested in finding information about prices/products/offers/etc of Apple in the USA, not in Spain. And I would go to apple.us and try to switch website language to Spanish if they provide it. Language division makes sense for an encyclopedia, but not for a corporate website.