I want to buy an album but it's not available in the itunes store of my country. I could i buy it?

Differing Countries have differing Copyright laws, Censorship laws, etc. etc. which that Country's iTunes Store must abide by. Some are extreme and you will most likely never even find an Apple Store there. iTunes does not own the content. They only make available what is allowed in each country.

Pete

I understand that different countries have different laws, but always assumed that if you bought the content it was yours to use as you wanted wherever you traveled. So as long as I download the purchased content to my local iTunes library it appears that is the case, no matter where it's purchased or played no matter where I'm physically sitting this year. The problem would be if the iTunes library was lost due to a hard drive failure or some other tragedy, then getting content that was purchased in multiple countries might be a pain to get downloaded again.

Can you login to the France iTunes store if you're currently in the US? or do you have to wait to get connected into a French ISP? or whatever other iTunes store/country you purchased content from?

Thanks everyone for helping to clear this up for me. Doesn't this global world we live in, make life interesting ;-)

BUT I"M STILL HOPING THE OP CLEARS UP THE QUESTION THAT STARTED THIS WHOLE THING ;-)

dot.com wrote:

I understand that different countries have different laws, but always assumed that if you bought the content it was yours to use as you wanted wherever you traveled. So as long as I download the purchased content to my local iTunes library it appears that is the case, no matter where it's purchased or played no matter where I'm physically sitting this year. The problem would be if the iTunes library was lost due to a hard drive failure or some other tragedy, then getting content that was purchased in multiple countries might be a pain to get downloaded again.

Can you login to the France iTunes store if you're currently in the US? or do you have to wait to get connected into a French ISP? or whatever other iTunes store/country you purchased content from?

Thanks everyone for helping to clear this up for me. Doesn't this global world we live in, make life interesting ;-)

BUT I"M STILL HOPING THE OP CLEARS UP THE QUESTION THAT STARTED THIS WHOLE THING ;-)

If the music is downloaded of course you can keep it in iTunes. As far as loosing it, that is why hundreds of people a day are told to BACKUP their data. If you lose it you have no one to blame but yourself.

Has that cleared it up any more?

Pete

I second what petermac has said - Backup, Backup, Backup. We cannot emphasize this enough. If you have a song, or a movie, or a TV Show in iTunes in the Cloud that is yanked from the iTunes store, you won't be able to get it back either. That's why you should back up your iTunes Library regularly.

GB