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Torchwood, Ashes to Ashes: Getting your goodies more legally

by Erica Sadun Feb 19th 2008 at 5:00PM

Earlier today, Nik posted about the new BBC shows on iTunes. For the equivalent of about $3.75 each, you can download and purchase your UK fix -- Gene Hunt, Captain Jack, whatever -- assuming you have a way to create and fund a UK iTunes account. For now, the best way seems to be eBay. A quick search of iTunes UK produced a half-dozen auctions, most run by the same vendor.

A £15 iTunes card (good for about 7 episodes) seems to be running in the low $20's but one went recently for $61--I'm guessing the buyer thought he was buying in dollars not pounds because $31 is not an unreasonable price, while £31 is. If buying, make sure you figure out in advance whether you'll be shipped the card (which can run as high as £5!!) or sent the code by email (should be free).

If you already have an unfunded iTunes UK account (google for it), you might be able to find a friend to send you an email-based gift certificate. These start at £5 and go up to £75. If you can work out a deal via PayPal, you could pay your friend, for example, 110% of the face price to cover time and expenses.

I actually did try buying a card directly from the UK Apple online store (free shipping!) but it balked at my US address. Do you have a better way to fund a foreign account? Let us know in the comments.



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louiscomtois

weird, it's back

April 03 2008 at 8:50 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
louiscomtois

The iTunes UK store removed Torchwood TV show this week (april 1st) does not look like an april fools joke!

April 03 2008 at 7:12 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
dggraphics

The new season of Torchwood is actually available in the US.

Usually we had to wait till the following year to get the shows, now they are just delayed for about a week. If you have cable Torchwood is on BBC America. Set your DVR's

February 25 2008 at 10:10 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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mary

How can I get the Season 2 episodes of Torchwood that I've missed. I didn't realize I could get them On-Demand so by now I have missed the first 8. It is cheesy and weird but I love it!

April 04 2008 at 8:11 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Blaktornado

Wow. Good idea. *Buys a load of iTunes UK Gift cards and sells them on ebay*

February 20 2008 at 12:41 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
pnarse

You send your friends a bill when they come over for a couple of pints?!
You tight bastard!

February 20 2008 at 11:30 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
shareit

apple won't let you open an itunes store account outside your country because they have agreements they won't sell stuff to foreigners. apple will argue it's therefore a copyright infringement to buy stuff from the uk store if you live in the us.

so why do you pay for doing something illegal and don't use p2p directly?

February 20 2008 at 7:20 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
kakapo

OK ... your address in the "foreign" account does not matter as long as it is a real address ... like say a store with fruit on the front.

So then you need to get iTunes cards for that country - if you have a PayPal account from anywhere - then goto:

https://www.hogeweg80.com/main.php

click on the "Go to our current 'sales' page" bit and order in the country of choice.
The demand has been so huge that it won't reopen until 29 Feb - but that is like days away. So, no big deal.

I live in Oz and I buy all of my US iTunes Gift Certificates from this guy at a discount and I am emailed the codes to my PayPal email address.

Can it get any easier than this?

OBTW - I have a USA address but you can use the Infinite Loop Address - I have plenty of friends who do that or as I said a local fruit store address - paypal only cares that they get paid as does this guy who sells the gift certificates.

Cheers.

February 20 2008 at 1:50 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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sym

can you give me an american address and number, maybe of that fruit store, of just anywhere as i am a UK customer and NEED a US account to live!

February 20 2008 at 12:17 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Fernando

Until "big" content providers give up this border mentality for video and audio content delivery, illegal P2P will continue to boom.

February 20 2008 at 1:49 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Mike

I really do wish they'd bring this to the US Store. I hate being stuck in the middle of nowhere (thanks University of Illinois!) without BBC America. I miss Torchwood!

February 20 2008 at 12:32 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Devo777

I thought you had to have a valid credit card number with the address matching that of the country you want to buy from?? How do you get around this. I have a gift card to the US store but no account without a US credit card...

February 19 2008 at 11:40 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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beto

Devo, if you already have an iTunes Gift Card, just redeem it, create the account, use an US address and phone then in the next dialog box you will choose "None" as a payment method, worked for me...

February 20 2008 at 8:22 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
beto

Devo, if you already have an iTunes Gift Card, just redeem it, create the account, use an US address and phone then in the next dialog box you will choose "None" as a payment method, worked for me...

February 20 2008 at 8:22 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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