iTunes Store/Credit Card/Address

I don't have an account myself but from what I have read on the discussions the card has to be tied to a home address, both of which have to be in the country for which you want the itunes account. So, no I don't think the French account will work in the US, it will only work in France.

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 Store you wish to use. So in order to buy from another country's iTunes 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 record companies and other rights holders (who are often completely different from country to country and so all require their own individual negotiations and contracts), not by Apple's choice.

It doesn't matter what the content is; you must open an account in a given country's iTunes Store to be able to download any of the content, even the free content, and you can't open an account unless you have a valid residence in that country and can verify it by one of the methods I mentioned above. That's required by the terms of the licensing from the content owners, applications as well as music and video content, and applies whether or not the content is free or charged for. You'll just have to hope that the content you want comes to the French iTunes Store.

Message was edited by: Dave Sawyer