Buying songs from other countries listed in the iTunes Stores

Does anyone know how long it will be until Canadian subscribers will be able to have the services which SHOULD be entitled to everyone?

As we've said several times now, it will happen if and when the content owners allow it. Until they do, there's nothing Apple can do.

Also, where would be a good place to download video if I CANNOT do it here?

There is no legal place for Canadians to download US TV shows that I know of.

I am an Italian Teacher and was really looking forward to downloading songs and videos from the Italian sto to use with my students. However, I apparently cannot.

My question is this... If I were to have someone from Italy [I have friends and relatives there] purchase an iTunes gift card and mail it to me in the USA, would I be able to use it even if I do not have an Italian address?

Michtoz, this question has been asked & answered literally hundreds of times in these forums. We are simply fellow users like you & would not have that information. Steve Jobs did announce that when movies were first made available that Apple hoped to have movies available internationally sometime in 2007, but not exact time frame was given.

As a new poster, you may want to try the "search" function in the upper right to see if your question has been asked previously. That way you won't have to wait several hours for someone to come along with a response.

Possibly due to silly licensing issue
Correct. You an only buy in your own country's store.

So, why are international store displayed in itunes if we can't shop there? Seems silly to me to even lead us down that road.

ya for some reason itunes opens to the japenese store for me and I cant buy anything and dont know how to change back to the US store

I can ring up japan/us and order a cd to be sent to me in Australia so really not much different.
And realistically, they could seize the CD at customs or tack on 50%-100% in duty/VAT/taxes.

Some songs are licensed to a different label in other countries.

Provide the service of allowing customers to purchase music from all over the world
It's not up to Apple.
They don't own the music.

When will iTune Store available in Malaysia ?

I don't know when a Malaysian iTMS will be up, but hopefully they'll have one in every country (that has a reasonably sized market) soon.

L'Italiano, I'm afraid that won't work as all gift cards must be used within the country of purchase.

HI, does anyone know when movies are going to be avaliable to download on the uk website?