Buying from another country's itunes store?

Why can't I buy music on the US itunes store? When I try to, I get a message saying I'm only authorized to buy from the French store (I live in France); Thanks for help.

In order to purchase from a particular country's store, you must have a credit card with a valid mailing address within that country. Legal stuff...

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  • Purchasing from another country's iTunes store

    Hi,
    I am based in Australia and use iTunes extensively to buy music. Some of the songs that I am after are not available on the Australia iTunes store, but are on the US site. Is there a (legal) way to purchase these songs?
    Rael

    Hi, Rael.
    Is there a (legal) way to purchase these songs?
    Unless you happen to have a residence and credit card billing address in the States, unfortunately there isn't.
    The reason why has to do with the business part of the music business so, for a bit of insight into the present situation, let's have a look at to This Business of Music (10th Edition) (by M. William Krasilovsky and Sydney Shemel) :
    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.
    You might also want to have a look at Scott P.'s User Tip for another angle on the situation.

  • US users can't buy from other country's itunes

    As the first line in the Terms of Service in the Japanese iTunes states.
    "Purchases from "this" iTunes store are available to you only in Japan and are not available in any other location. You agree not to use or attempt to use "these" services outside of the available territory...."
    I may just be reading the first line so their may be more to this but so far I find it completely asinine that I'm unable to buy Japanese songs from the Japanese iTunes. It's very hard to find current non-anime related Japanese artist on the internet.
    If you can help me at all, please do. (Sad Angry Face)
    <Edited by Moderator>

    This comes up all the time. You have to have a valid billing address and credit card from a certain country to buy from that store. It is not up to Apple - it is up to the folks who hold the rights to the Japanese songs.
    Here is a post from forum regular Dave Sawyer that pretty much sums it up:
    +This has been covered here literally dozens of times, but once again: the content owners do not allow cross-border sales from any of the legal download stores. You must therefore have legal residence in the country of the iTunes Store you wish to use. So in order to buy from another country's iTunes Store, you must (as proof of residence) have either:+
    +a) a credit card issued by a bank in that country with a billing address also in that country, or+
    +b) a mailing address for your residence in that country and a gift certificate or a prepaid card that was bought in that country.+
    +If you cannot fulfill one of these two sets of conditions, you will not be able to purchase from any given country's iTMS.+
    +This, again, is due to restrictions placed on Apple by the record companies and other rights holders (who are often completely different from country to country and so all require their own individual negotiations and contracts), not by Apple's choice.+

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    Thanks

    inuse217 wrote:
    I only want one song so if I were to buy an itunes gift card here in Australia, when I return to the US I wouldn't be able to use it in the US itunes store?
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  • Buying from US store from another country?

    Is that possible? If so, what might i be doing wrong, when i click to buy something i just get redirected to my national store which apparently doesn't have what i want. Isn't the internet supposed to bridge gaps or something...?

    This has been covered here literally dozens of times, but once again: the content owners do not allow cross-border sales from any of the legal download stores. You must therefore have legal residence in the country of the iTunes Store you wish to use. So in order to buy from another country's iTunes Store, you must (as proof of residence) have either:
    a) a credit card issued by a bank in that country with a billing address also in that country, or
    b) a mailing address for your residence in that country and a gift certificate or a prepaid card that was bought in that country.
    If you cannot fulfill one of these two sets of conditions, you will not be able to purchase from any given country's iTMS.
    This, again, is due to restrictions placed on Apple by the record companies and other rights holders (who are often completely different from country to country and so all require their own individual negotiations and contracts), not by Apple's choice.

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    Has anyone tried to purchase a song from a different country's itunes store? I want to buy a song by Sandi Thom that is only available in the UK, but itunes says I can only purchase in the US store. Any suggestions? Thanks,
    Sammy3

    The issue of cross store purchasing comes up frequently so I'll just quote one of the most complete explanations (courtesy of Dave Sawyer) from the many given:
    The content owners do not allow cross-border sales from any of the legal download stores (not Apple or the proprietors of any of the other large stores..... though I believe there are a few exceptions among smaller/specialist vendors). You must therefore have legal residence in the country of the iTunes Store you wish to use. So in order to buy from another country's iTunes Store, you must (as proof of residence) have either:
    a) a credit card issued by a bank in that country with a billing address also in that country, or
    b) a mailing address for your residence in that country and a gift certificate or a prepaid card that was bought in that country.
    If you cannot fulfill one of these two sets of conditions, you will not be able to purchase from any given country's iTunes Music Store.
    This, again, is due to restrictions placed on Apple by the record companies and other rights holders (who are often completely different from country to country and so all require their own individual negotiations and contracts), not by Apple's choice.

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