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iTunes goes New Zealand

by Erica Sadun Nov 16th 2006 at 4:30PM

The New Zealand Herald reports that locals are looking forward to the anticipated opening of iTunes New Zealand. It's been a long time coming. Rumors about iTunesNZ have been floating around for nearly three years without the appearance of an actual storefront. Insiders in the NZ music industry report that local labels are now in active negotiations with Apple and that the new storefront may appear before the end of the year.

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ben

U2 is having a concert in Auckland on Friday..so possibly it might be launched then as well..

fingers crossed..:)

November 23 2006 at 4:49 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
daniel

Hopefully itunes will launch in nz soon. a report said high profile apple marketers will be in nz this week so it may launched this week.

November 21 2006 at 5:11 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
pat

jeesus. and I thought us gus in australia waited ages. Speaking of which, where's out movies and TV shows?

November 17 2006 at 8:22 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
David

Great news - finally some common sense.

Hey what's with the sheep? You need a KIWI there mate. Check out this one designed by my mate Rod Gibson. Go kiwi.

http://www.logosauce.com/logos/34

November 17 2006 at 12:50 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Ryan Maxwell

about bloody time. If true, this is the best news i've heard all week!

- Ryan from auckland, NZ

November 16 2006 at 9:37 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Pierre LaStank

Very nice. Flying Nun has been one of my favorite labels through the years. Might make it easier to get some of their bands.

November 16 2006 at 8:48 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Matt P

I'm not aware that we in New Zealand have ever had laws preventing DRM -- there are a number of other online music stores already operating here, such as txttunes.co.nz, coketunes.co.nz, and digirama.co.nz.

November 16 2006 at 7:50 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Matt P

It's interesting to note that Campbell Smith, the president of the Recording Industry Association of New Zealand (RIANZ), is in breach of the iTunes Store's Terms and Conditions by using an American credit card to access the American iTunes store from New Zealand, which the NZHerald story linked above has him doing. This is likely due to licensing restrictions imposed by the same American record companies that Smith and RIANZ represent in New Zealand. What a hypocrite.

iTunes Store Terms and Conditions (http://www.apple.com/legal/itunes/us/service.html)

10. Territory. The Service is currently available only in the United States, and is not available in any other location. You agree not to use or attempt to use the Service from outside of the available territory, and that Apple may use technologies to verify your compliance.

(PS. I actually saw Campbell Smith in the Grey Lynn branch of Woolworth's two or three weeks ago. He didn't have his iPod with him though. New Zealand is small.)

November 16 2006 at 7:42 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
R Muffet

Interesting. Didn't New Zealand have some liberal laws preventing DRM?

Or maybe that only applied to DVD Region coding?

(That is, region locked DVD players weren't permitted for sale. Although, aren't MacBook DVD drives region locked after 5 changes?)

Perhaps a Xena neighbor could comment?!

November 16 2006 at 6:48 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Eric

They have a store in Luxembourg, but not New Zealand. That's just weird.

November 16 2006 at 6:14 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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