iTunes
I love my iPod, I love iTunes and I even enjoy buying music from the iTunes Music Store. This weekend I was overjoyed to find that I could hook up to Music Stores in other countries, and almost all the music I like from UPop was available on the UK site. But then I tried to buy some tunes and met with resistance: you can only buy if you are registered on that country’s site, and to register you need a credit card with an address in that country. Wah!
According to Apple this is due to “copyright concerns” but if I was an artist abroad I’m sure I would want my music to be available for purchase anywhere. More sales means more $$ for the record companies, especially as now I’ll probably have to download the songs from some filesharing site if I want them. Wouldn’t it be better for everyone if I could buy from all the stores?
Whenever I am set to learn to fly a new plane, the Santa Ana winds return. It was a blowing a gale over the mountains this morning, and it makes for very bumpy conditions in the air. It will not be any fun this week.