Unable to purchase content from US iTunes store

Question

Has anyone else had difficulty purchasing content ie tv shows from the US iTunes store with your log in information? itunes allows me to browse the US site and choose items to buy but when I log in to purchase them I am told that because I am Canadian I have to buy the items from the Canadian itunes store, which although the tv programs are broadcast here on Canadian networks Itunes doesn't allow me to purchase the same tv programs. WIll there be a Canadian version of the TV programs section of ITunes coming soon?

Answer 1

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 Music Store you wish to use. So in order to buy from another country's iTunes Music 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 rights holders, not by Apple's choice. When, or indeed if, the owners of the TV shows will allow Apple to sell them in your country, no one here can say. We'll all just have to wait and see.
Forum Tip: Since you're new here, you've probably not discovered the Search feature available on every Discussions page, but next time, it might save you time (and everyone else from having to answer the same question multiple times) if you search a couple of ways for a topic, both in the relevant forums, in the User Tips Library and in the Apple Knowledge Base before you post a question.
Regards.