International Purchase in iTunes

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I live and work in Grenada, in the Caribbean. I have an 80Gig iPod with iTunes 7. There are four iPods in my family.
But we cannot make purchases in itunes with internationally valid Visa Credit Card because the setting is only for the USA and 19 other countries. What about the other 150 countries? The registered address for my Visa Card is in Grenada.
I cannot believe that Apple, iTunes, iPod are not organized for international purcheses.
I must be doing something wrong.
Can sombody advise me, please?
Richie473

Unfortunately, there is nothing any of us can do since we are simply fellow users like you are. Until Grenada or the West Indies has a store, you will not be able to purchase from any other country's store. The copyright holders for store content require that you have a credit card with a billing address in the country you wish to purchase. Apple can do nothing as these rules are required by the copyright holders as they do not care for cross-border sales.

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