Apple to Asia: no movies for you

no movies for asia...how about no ipod or mac made in asia!?

Africa! How about some iTMS for the Africans?

Granted, individually, the countries won't have a large market, but the most of the people with iPods and computers will have access to US$, and Apple could open one Store to handle the entire continent, which would cater for far more people than Belgium for instance!

Singapore has the best piracy laws in the world.

BRING iTunes TO SINGAPORE!!!

As an IP lawyer working in Asia, I am simply amazed that the recording artists and their "representative" companies aren't providing the public with more legal download options.

The days of paying over the odds for a completely shyte album in order to get just one decent song are over. Time to buck up your ideas or get left behind.

Ref to no. 16 (adrian) I have much sympathy for you. Used to live there and couldn't believe how much cheaper Apple products (esp computers) are in Hong Kong. Did you know it's cheaper to fly to HK (economy) buy an Apple with software and fly back than it is to buy exactly the same kit in Wellington?
I have already sourced Macs for three NZ friends, and am stunned that Apple NZ get away with the price fixing they do. At the prices they are trying to flog them off at, it's like each computer had its own seat on the plane heading to NZ...

Here in lawless, piracy-ridden New Zealand western laws and culture are so alien to us we don't even get an itunes store. Hell, I don't care - I don't want to buy low-res films and nasty compressed music anyway.

What really bugs me is that there's no Apple presence here at all - instead we have a bunch of no-good price-gouging criminals as the sole distributor of Apple products; consequently a MacBook Pro for example costs 25% more than in the US (excluding sales tax) while the comparative income is 40% lower. I'm stoked.

Here in New Zealand we can afford the songs but it is illegal (though possible) to puchase from the Aussie iTunes Store. (read clause 10 in account agreement).
In fact we are so much of a backwater that Apple do not even maintain a presence here. They leave it up to their agent, Rennaisance Ltd.
It is also illegal to copy our legally purchased CD's. So, how do we put music on our iPods? ilegally of course!

Piracy and the fact that credit card fraud is not unusual there, and the idea of DRM simply doesn't work in some Asian countries. I am from Asia by the way.

Anyway, I do hope Movies are coming to iTunes Europe soon, coz I am now in the UK. Why the hell they pull Pixar short films and movie trailers from iTunes UK which was previously available?

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Asia has piracy and there we will not sell them songs legally!

Wow sounds like a perfectly good reason.

Europe to Apple: Why can't we have movies to buy legally? Otherwise, there's always Limewire....