[LINK] Australians breaking the rules to get cheaper iTunes

[Ivan Trundle]

To buy from iTunes US, you have to have a US credit card and a US billing address. With these credentials, it doesn't matter where you end up listening to the music. Or you can use an American Express card, from what I've heard.

However, the US iTunes rules (thanks to record and TV companies, apparently) are strict: 

"The Service is available to you only in the United States, its territories, and possessions. You agree not to use or attempt to use the Service from outside these locations. Apple may use technologies to verify your compliance."

(http://www.apple.com/legal/itunes/ww/)

Incidentally, the iTunes Terms are viewable on an iPhone, but have plenty of time to spare - it spans 57 pages.

So pretty much anyone who can verify that they reside in the US can buy material, but depending upon your interpretation, US travellers cannot use the service once they leave the shores of their mother country.

There's always Amazon...

iT

On 20/01/2011, at 9:56 AM, Kim Holburn wrote:

> http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/hack/stories/s3116740.htm
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>> Breaking the rules to get cheaper iTunes
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>> 19/01/2011
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>> reporter: John Barrington & Tom Tilley
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>> Are you happy to pay 58 per cent more for this album on iTunes than Americans? joo0ey on Flickr
>> Aussies are breaking the rules and opening up US iTunes accounts, to get around the higher prices we pay in Australia.
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>> Worldwide recording industry watchdog - the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry - has just released a report showing that illegal file-sharing and online piracy have been major factors behind a 30 per cent global market decline in overall music sales, a decline mirrored in Australia since 2001. 
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>> Analysis by hack shows that iTunes music products are about 58 per cent more expensive in Australia than in the US and that's at a time when our dollar is around parity with the greenback.
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>> Does the price gap encourage you to download illegally and avoid buying a legit copy or are you happy to pay more?
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>> hack also spoke to David Bradbury, the Federal Parliamentary Secretary Assisting the Treasurer in Competition and Consumer Policy.
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