Originally posted by 6163621
Perhaps they think it is some extension of Radio Free Europe or a CIA conversion campaign.
When you said your response is satirical, you didn't mean this part, right? This part is true, right?
I'd be surprised if it's anything more complicated than the legal zoo of multiple countries, though...isn't there some kind of timetable for harmonized IP laws between EU countries? I thought I remembered reading about this with respect to French droit morale laws and colorizing/remastering/remixing movies.
Someone else posted saying they didn't like the idea of iTunes Europe b/c they wanted a local iTunes with local content that was different than everyone else's. I'm not sure I understand this perspective. I think, of course, every European user would expect that at least a good chunk of the more popular music in their region would be sold in iTunes (inasmuch as this is true for pop music in the USA and the USA iTMS). But why do the collections need to be mutually exclusive? I don't understand, for instance, why you (as, say a Finn) would not patronize a store because it sold Italian favorites as well as Finnish music, esp. when you have the advantage of hierarchical navigation / browsing. And of course Finnish (in the example) musicians would benefit more if non-Finns could buy their music.
OTOH, I think wanting a customized new music / start page by country or even region is somewhat more reasonable. I think the system should also try to customize the start page based on recent purchases, a la Amazon.
The side benefit would be that iTunes would never again have to announce to me that a new Brittney Spears album is available.
