I have Danish iTunes Store, but need something from the US-store. How to??

As provided, you can use the itunes store in your country, not others.

"Purchases or rentals (as applicable) from the iTunes Store are available to you only in the United States, its territories, and possessions, and are not available in any other location. You agree not to use or attempt to use the iTunes Store from outside of the available territory. Apple may use technologies to verify such compliance."

http://www.apple.com/legal/itunes/us/terms.html

In order to download from the U.S. iTunes Store, you'd need 1) A valid U.S. billing address and 2) Either a credit card billed to that address or an iTunes gift card purchased in the U.S. And, if I understand the terms of sale correctly, you'd need to physically be in the U.S.

So, short of moving to the U.S., there is no solution. Sorry.

Just as a theoretical question (theoretical for me at the moment, anyway):

If I (as a US resident with address, credit card, iTunes account, etc.) travel overseas on vacation (or to Canada or Mexico or take a cruise) and bring my laptop with me, do the terms of service mean that I am not allowed to purchase anything from iTunes while travelling?

If not, how about podcasts (not the free ones) that download automatically?

I'm not trying to argue with the policy, if that's how it is, but just trying to understand it. Any travelers out there know how this works?

Gotta love it.... iTunes won't let you buy and so they lose business (that is, there are plenty of other sites to buy music and movies from).

I am an American living in the UK, I have two separate accounts and will revert to old iTunes to use both again. HOWEVER I cannot get gifts from anyone in the USA any more.

Again, well done Apple: make my friends buy my gifts elsewhere, loss of business for you!

CalChickpea, you're mistaken.
+iTunes won't let you buy+


The copyright owners won't let you buy. Apple/iTunes don't have any control of what & where music files get sold. Try and download some Beatles legally? You can't. Anywhere in the world.

Apple's terms of service are required of them by the content owners who will not allow cross-border sales. These same terms are common to all legal download stores that carry material from the major content owners. From This Business of Music (10th Edition) (by M. William Krasilovsky and Sydney Shemel) (and thanks to the Mimico Kid for the reference) :

The difficulty of establishing workable business models for digital files (...) extends to where they are sold and where they are played. This is the issue of territoriality, and it is an illustration of how the Internet makes it necessary to reexamine basic assumptions that have been taken for granted (...).
(....) In the music business the primary problem is that copyrights are national and therefore specific rights are tied to national laws and the interpretations of national courts.
(.... T)hough we can one day hope to see the development of common standards with respect to copyright, the fact that the music business is building upon a history of nation-specific contractual relationships means that the goal of universal international standards is not, for the forseeable future, a practical one.
(...) Adding to the difficulty (...) the copyrights themselves may have been assigned to different companies in different territories. The best hope for a cleaner start and a simpler future is worldwide recognition that digital uses are in fact - and should be in law - totally new.

The content owners don't like cross-border sales of CDs and DVDs either, but there's nothing they can do to stop such sales. They can, though, and do stop cross-border download sales, since if the download stores refuse, the rights holders won't license the tracks to that store.

So unless and until the record companies, et. al, all get together and agree to allow download stores to sell cross-border, there's absolutely nothing Apple or any other download store can do.

"do the terms of service mean that I am not allowed to purchase anything from iTunes while travelling?"

This is indeed what it says.

No, it's the iTunes terms of service from Apple.

We're not talking about music that iTunes doesn't offer; the discussion is about the music and programs they DO offer.

OK, you win, CrPa.
Tell me about a music MP3 store that's global and legal enough to pay royalties to the artists.
In Romania. For U2.