At Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 11:48:56 Will wrote:

>>That is where reading those british magazines come in handy.
>>WORD has a nice review of the new album, and you can listen
>>to bits of it in iTUNES. You have to switch to the UK store.
>>You can't buy it sadly, but you can sample it.
>
>That begs a question I've been wondering about:  how long do you think 
>it'll take before we here in the US can take advantage of the stuff that's 
>available on the UK's iTunes (and vice versa)?  It drives me crazy when I 
>go to an artist's website and read that their new album is available 
>through iTunes, but, when you click on the link, I'm told that it's 
>unavailable to US residents...

As soon as labels and publisher realize that they'd make more money if they 
didn't play geographic politics. Many acts are self-involved in this 
practice as well. Only allowing MP3 downloads in specific territories 
because of out-moded territorial contractual stipulations does nothing for 
those wanting to purchase these songs...like yourself. There's also the 
issue of royalty collection by territory as well.


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