iTunes store unavailable?

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Is the problem only affecting the iTunes Store, or is it also affecting the other online music download stores that you have tried?

I've been having the same problem since 430 am and I am on the west coast. i bought a movie and it wont download i've never had any problem with itunes till today. I also could not get songs from my itunes plus. I get a message saying location changed i've got that before but the song downloads any way.

Same here, can't purchase anything but can browse the store fine. On top of that I'm missing about $20 off my store credit from a gift card I had.

same here....11:33 on the east coast, no network status on the apple site to help us out, just frustration.

I am having the same issues with the store, everytime I try to log on or purchase a song it tells me that my network connection timed out and to check the connection and try again.

Windows Vista, 2MB Shuffle

Exact same issue here as in the opening post. I can give you more info though.

2 PCs(XP) a Mac(OSX) and a Linux Distro all having the same issue.
2 separate accounts (mine and my wife's) with the same symptoms.
Verified all firewalls are tuned off.
one XP machine upgraded to 8.1 (or whatever the newest version is)

Same symptoms as the opening post. We can brows the store but are unable to make any purchases (ding ding Apple!)We get the same error reported in the OP. Neither of us can get into our iTunes accounts either.

Same here. Been going on for about two hours.

Same problem, same message, cannot download songs. Itunes does not let me log in. I can access the itunes store had the problem noted, signed out of Itunes store and could not get back in. Similar issue with mobileme not letting me check my account status, so I assume it is a problem with Apple's servers. My internet connection is obviously working! I will try the usual tricks, permission fixes, cache cleaning, restart and see what happens. System was working last night without problems. My mobileme email works fine.

same here on west coast.
latest version of itunes 8.1 makes no difference. cannot sign in or connect to itunes store.

Yeah, it let me rent a movie and download it - but when finishing the file I got the whole "cannot connect... timed out..." deal.

All I want to do is synch it to my iPhone and go to bed!! It's 11:30 on the East coast and I've got to get up for a flight in 5 hours!!!

I am currently having the same problem. I'm Central Standard Time and have been unable to purchase from the iTunes store for a couple of hours. I'm getting the same 'network connection' message, but as with the other user, my network connection is fine. I've tried closing and restarting iTunes, but with no help. This is the first time I've ever had this problem.

Seeing the same problem. Mac with iTunes 8.1. I logged out of my account, and can't log back in, same message about not being able to connect to the iTunes Store.

I am also having a similar problem, I just updated to the new iTunes and now when i try to download anything from the iTunes it comes up with some kind of network error.

Here is what happens:

1. Accessing iTunes store
2. Error message 'We could not complete your iTunes store request. The network connection timed out." My girlfriends is having the same problem on her iTunes PC.

Same issue here on an MBP - trying to access AUS store from Malaysia, which up until today was fine, but can't do it anymore.

And since logging out of my account to see if that helped (which it didn't!!) I can now no longer even access my account.

Bit of an ooops there Apple 😉