ITunes Australia Goes Live 233
daria42 writes "ITunes Australia has finally gone live, after more than a year of waiting. Apple is holding a press conference in Sydney this morning to officially launch the service to the media, but the store has already opened. Like the Japanese ITunes store, it looks like Sony-BMG is not participating."
Mysterious future. (Score:4, Interesting)
The article comes up here just fine [zdnet.com.au]. Also, another interesting article: Apple: Our biggest competitor is P2P [zdnet.com.au].
No Sony-BMG = No Good (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:No Fair Use (Score:2, Interesting)
Important positions being taken here (Score:5, Interesting)
This is very important everyone. the content providers are VERY SCARED. First they were scared the medium wouldn't be popular enough to thwart file sharing, now they are scared it is SO POPULAR it will thwart their very role in distribution!
I for one welcome the medium - The quality of "Lost" is totally acceptable for the price and download time, actual movies should only be provided in a hgher quality though.
New Zealanders Feel Left Out... (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:No Fair Use (Score:1, Interesting)
Instead, like the rest of the world we have Fair Dealing laws that set down your rights in black and white, and are not open to interpretation.
With Fair Use, if you're lucky you might be protected for certain uses - but there is absolutely no situation that is guaranteed to be protected - it's all up to how well you can argue it in court, most probably against a high payed entertainment industry lawyer.
With Fair Dealing, you probably won't get away with as much, but you can know 100% that you are protected if you fall within its definition.
Re:Apple, how about NZ? (Score:3, Interesting)
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/8515A04B
with "hints" on how to circumvent the Aussie only rule. I'm sure you've already cottoned on to that.
Apple NZ head said he doesn't know if/when Apple will even launch in NZ.
Re:No Fair Use (Score:3, Interesting)
According to this person's research into the Terms and Conditions [slashdot.org], it's ambiguous whether buying a track from iTunes Oz grants you any CD burning privileges or not:
So you're allowed to burn and export products; but you don't get any copyright waiver, and there's no such thing as fair use in Oz, so you're not allowed to burn or export. So ... are you allowed to burn CDs or not???
We're paying more (Score:1, Interesting)
Re:Global store? (Score:4, Interesting)
"Here Apple, have our entire catalogue for world wide distribution."
That has to make everyone happy.
No "Just For You" feature, but a workaround (Score:3, Interesting)
The Aussie store currently doesn't have the Just For You feature, but if you go to the home page and switch to the US store using the popup menu at the bottom, it appears.
(You have to switch back if you want to buy a song later.)
Get an overseas bank account (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Global store? (Score:2, Interesting)