04-26-2007, 01:56 AM
OK, I suppose you can somehow trick the system.
But that's one of the complaints against Apple right now, in Europe. Aside from not making the FairPlay DRM available to other manufacturers, Apple is getting heat for not letting people it one country buy songs from another country. Great Britain subjects want to buy from the US iTunes store, but can't.
Stevie told them that he can't open the store in one country to customers in another country, because of the agreements with the record companies.
I don't know if that means it's because of distribution agreements or copyright law. Some countries say he's breaking the law, and that's in addition to his heinous practice of restricting music sold on iTunes to iPods. (And one can get around that, too.)
So if he violates the agreement, he could incur a civil suit. Does that mean he broke a civil law? Or is it not a *law* because it's a civil matter? If he the songs in question were instead fully automatic firearms, would that mean it's illegal for him to sell them but not illegal for anyone to *buy* them? That would be cool.
But Apple will try *not* to sell you songs from a country outside of the US.
But that's one of the complaints against Apple right now, in Europe. Aside from not making the FairPlay DRM available to other manufacturers, Apple is getting heat for not letting people it one country buy songs from another country. Great Britain subjects want to buy from the US iTunes store, but can't.
Stevie told them that he can't open the store in one country to customers in another country, because of the agreements with the record companies.
I don't know if that means it's because of distribution agreements or copyright law. Some countries say he's breaking the law, and that's in addition to his heinous practice of restricting music sold on iTunes to iPods. (And one can get around that, too.)
So if he violates the agreement, he could incur a civil suit. Does that mean he broke a civil law? Or is it not a *law* because it's a civil matter? If he the songs in question were instead fully automatic firearms, would that mean it's illegal for him to sell them but not illegal for anyone to *buy* them? That would be cool.
But Apple will try *not* to sell you songs from a country outside of the US.