Why can I only purchase movies from within my own country?

Or moreover, Why can't I buy movies from the ITunes family in other countries?

You can ONLY buy from the itunes store of the country of your residence ( proven by the billing address on your credit card) and ONLY while inside the borders of that country.

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    why can I only purchase content from the store in my home country. Sometimes the dont have the content im after but other countries stores do

    Because this is how the itunes store works.

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    Ha, ha, you are such a tool!
    That profile was written in 2007 and never updated. Unlike you, I don't live on this forum. I have one 5 year old Dell gathering dust, waiting for the trash that has some kids software on it my kids never use.
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  • TS3297 Why can I not purchase movies from iTunes?

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    For assistance, contact iTunes Support at www.apple.com/support/itunes/ww/.
    I have checked to make sure my account and software is up to date but this box pops up on the apple tv, ipad, ipod and mac. I have also followed the link and it does not give me an answer. Help!!
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    You need to do what it says to do and contact itunes support:
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    Why can't I purchase movies on my iPad? When I hit buy it doesn't download.

    Ok. That's strange.  The download should show up immediately in the lower right.  Even if it is stuck, you will se the red number.  So something is blocking the purchase.  Take a look at setting, restrictions, and see if something there is turned on that might be blocking you.

  • Why can't i purchase music from an overseas store

    Why can't I purchase music from the US ITunes Store when based in AUS. I can't even find the music I want in searches unless i search overseas.

    This has been covered here many times already, but once again: Apple has no choice in the matter. It's due to restrictions placed on Apple by the record companies and other rights holders.  Quoting from This Business of Music (10th Edition) (by M. William Krasilovsky and Sydney Shemel et. al,  Random House LLC 2007) (and thanks to the Mimico Kid for the reference) :
    The difficulty of establishing workable business models for digital files (...) extends to where they are sold and where they are played. This is the issue of territoriality, and it is an illustration of how the Internet makes it necessary to reexamine basic assumptions that have been taken for granted (...).
    (....) In the music business the primary problem is that copyrights are national and therefore specific rights are tied to national laws and the interpretations of national courts.
    (.... T)hough we can one day hope to see the development of common standards with respect to copyright, the fact that the music business is building upon a history of nation-specific contractual relationships means that the goal of universal international standards is not, for the forseeable future, a practical one.
    (...) Adding to the difficulty (...) the copyrights themselves may have been assigned to different companies in different territories. The best hope for a cleaner start and a simpler future is worldwide recognition that digital uses are in fact - and should be in law - totally new.
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    So unless and until the record companies, et. al,  all get together and agree to allow download stores to sell cross-border, there's absolutely nothing Apple or any other download store can do.

  • HT204411 why can't I buy movies from the american itunes store?

    why can't I buy movies from the american itunes store?

    Are you located inside the U.S?
    If not, this is why?

  • Why can't you purchase stuff from the itunes store if you're not in that country? I'm in South Africa and most of the best things I want to download are on the US itunes, so I try switch to it but it won't let me download or purchase? I don't get it?

    I don't get why? What's the harm if you're in a different country? We all pay the same way and the internet was made to connect people over the world, stuff is downloaded from different global destinations millions of times a day. So what's the point of having an itunes store and App Store that limits you to the boring stuff in your own country? You read about these great app's, bands etc and find them in search engines, you have all the Mac products, but then you can't use them coz of where you're currenlty living? It's like a horrible tease!
    Is there a way around this? Or what can be done in order to access the things I want?
    Any advice, suggestions anyone?

    The reason is licensing - artists/record companies/TV networks/movie distributors all have separate licensing deals in different countries (or no licensing deals at all). It isn't mysterious or secret.
    The only way around this is to have an iTunes account in the other country - either a valid credit card with billing address in that country, or an iTunes gift card from that country (though you'll still be asked for a billing address in the country for which you've purchased the card).

  • Why can't I purchase movies or tv-shows in Norway?

    I was wondering why I can't purchase movies or TV-shows from iTunes. I'm from Norway, so my account is registered i Norway. Apple don't sell Apple TV i Norway either. WHY?!

    Because Apple doesn't have permission to sell enough movies and TV shows in Norway to open sections for them in its iTunes Store.
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  • Can't see purchased movies from itunes on iPad

    I can't see the movies I purchased on my iPad. I sync them from itunes. They are on the ipad based on the hard drive space used. But when I tap the ipod icon, I can't see movies or video on the bottom of screen or on the left hand side that would point to the movies.
    Any help?

    thor68 wrote:
    I can't see the movies I purchased on my iPad. I sync them from itunes.
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    +If they were downloaded to your computer in iTunes, then do as Philly suggests, sync your iPad to your computer.+
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    Any ideas?

    Perhaps you are hitting the wrong key combination?
    Command key is the Apple key. So you should be holding down the Apple key & the option key and while holding hit delete.
    Perhaps you are holding down Ctrl instead?
    Also, which keyboard do you have? I wonder if there is an issue with the laptop and new iMac shorty keyboards where delete and backspace are treated differently. The new keyboards do a "forward delete" by holding down the Fn key along with delete. Maybe something there is causing an issue?
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  • Can I delete purchased movies from my iPad to save space once it has been synced to iCloud

    Hi,
    I have 2 movies that I purchased on my iPad - The space is cramped now and I'm deleting apps to download new items.  I am not to familiar with the iCloud and I see my movies in there on the iMac - am I now able to delete these purchased movies off my iPad and still retain access to them through the iCloud (on my iPad)?  If so, how would I find them once I delete them? 
    Thank you for your help!!
    Beth

    Hi Beth,
    Yes, you can delete them from your iPad. If you want to re-download them in future, you would click on the iTunes app, then on More>Purchased>Movies>Not on this iPad, and then would click on the little cloud to the right of the movie you want to re-download.
    Cheers,
    GB

  • Why can i only dl songs from canada

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