Itunes Store for South Africa

Hey guys!!
Will Itunes/Apple EVER allow other countries other than the US to purchase music, TV shows etc? I live in South Africa and the itunes store only consists of an app store... I use an iphone 3G as well, and love Apple....

Hello everyone. I am just as upset about the fact that we cannot purchase content from the Apple iTunes store, but they do have a valid and understandable reason why this isn't possible.
Local Media Companies will suffer a great loss due to the fact that their music and tv shows are slightly older then that in the USA, and they also like to be the first to release such content.
With South African's purchasing the latest TV shows on iTunes there would be no point for having DSTV since the TV shows on the iTunes store are newer then those on DSTV. This is just one example of what great drama this could cause for local businesses.
Now the other option for apple would be to create a separate store for each country offering only the content that is available to that country as chosen by the local media. This on the other hand would take a lot of work, and a lot of money. I think that Apple is focussing on other things first, such as the new iMac's MacBook's and Magic Mouse.
Hopefully one day.. (SOON!! Please Steve?) They will expand the iTunes store globally. With a separate content collection for each country in order not to infringe on copyrights and broadcasting rights.
I will patently wait..
Yours Truly
Purebred Apple Fanboy - David Venter

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