Jet-Set
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Tuesday 14 July 2009 15:37

Occasionally I buy some Coke, so occasionally I
should get a free download from iTunes. The issue
is that iTunes is split up into provincial stores,
and if you have an account in one area, that
doesn't count for another area. So my Dutch iTunes
account is pretty useless in Germany, and the free
download with the Coke is only valid in the German
iTunes store. It's possible to transfer my Dutch
account to a German area account, but for some
reason they need my credit card data. But I only
want to get my free download and am not planning to
buy anything in that store, so they can just fuck
off with their annoying crap. And now I'm supposed
to feel guilty downloading music for free from
another source?

The Playstation Stores are also split, and some
downloads you can only get in a local store, so you
have to log into an account set up for that area.
Accounts aren't transferable between area's for
some reason, so I can't even use the German
Playstation store with my main account.

Add to that region-codes and some geolocation of IP
numbers and just moving around the world frequently
you soon learn to never buy digital media again,
because the media you legally bought in one country
don't have to work in another country and why start
breaking the law only after spending your money?
Why is the media-industry still behaving like some
Honecker?

by Roland van Ipenburg
http://www.xs4all.nl/~ipenburg/blog/posts/play/2009/07/14/jet-set/