blog.wired.com - 8/26/2008
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Picture_8 China has lifted its general block on the iTunes store after apparently figuring out how to block access to just Songs for Tibet without shutting the whole store down. The iTunes store went dark in China last week after word spread that the album, whose proceeds will be used for "peace initiatives and Tibetan cultural preservation projects important to the Dalai Lama," was for sale ...
biz.yahoo.com - 8/22/2008
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biz.yahoo.com —
BEIJING (AP) -- Customers in China of Apple
Inc.'s iTunes online music store were unable to download...
songs this week, and an activist group said Beijing was trying to block access to a new Tibet-themed album. In Internet forums, iTunes users ...
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iTunes blocked in China; Tibet album suspected: ...
blogs.computerworld.com - 8/25/2008
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blogs.computerworld.com —
Is the great firewall of China really blocking
foreign users from accessing the iTunes music store? According...
to many iTunes users living abroad (Apple China doesn't have a domestic iTunes store) they were cut off from iTunes store since Monday. ...
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iTunes blocked in China over Tibet? Can this really be ...
sfgate.com - 8/26/2008
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sfgate.com —
However, the Web page for downloading a pro-Tibet
album, which is suspected of prompting the crackdown, remains...
unavailable on the service. Chinese users started having problems logging in to iTunes last week, immediately raising suspicions that the ...
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China lifts iTunes block but for Tibet album
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China Reinstates iTunes Store Access - (Kinda)
MacBlogz - One Stop Apple News —
... we all know, Apple is based in the west of the western world. They come from the left. A place where freedom of speech and expression of opinion are for the most part expected and appreciated….and at the very least tolerated. What do you think Apple should do? Should they bow down to the Chinese regime and engage in/abide by censorship? If Apple did agree to play ball with China, could there be repercussions in other, more liberal, markets?
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iTunes is back in China, minus Songs for Tibet
MacUser —
Various media outlets are reporting that iTunes is now back in China, but without those pesky pro-Tibet songs, which are still unavailable.
Seems rather convenient that now, after the close of the Olympics, that iTunes is back, hrm?
The other interesting part, however, is that Apple is at least tacitly acknowledging that iTunes works, officially or not, in China, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
This is despite the fact that before, as Dan Moren wrote, "China doesn't have its own native version of iTunes, many ...
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