blogs.computerworld.com - 8/25/2008
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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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biz.yahoo.com - 8/22/2008
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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: ...
tuaw.com - 8/21/2008
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tuaw.com —
By definition, all tips we receive about Apple
future product intros are wrong. After all, we're not...
Engadget . People aren't going to risk their jobs to deliver insider information. That being said, a tip that shot into our mailbox this morning ...
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iTunes access in China restored?
9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence —
... including Moby and Alanis Morissette. What's apparently caused access to be blocked was that at least 40 athletes in the Olympic village had downloaded the music to play on their iPods in support of the campaign to Free Tibet.
An Apple tech support email said: "iTunes is not being blocked in China from our end, but access to the iTunes Store IS restricted in some areas in China."
There was some controversy over the accuracy of these reports, with a Computerworld blog explaining some of this.
"Although the timing is bad and the profile ...
Chinese Authorities Grant iTunes Access?
MacBlogz - One Stop Apple News —
... of the over 8 million or so songs, that doesn’t groove well with them. The album in question, entitled ‘Songs for Tibet’, includes tracks such as “great firewall of China,” criticizing the the unfair treatment that Tibetans have faced for so many years.”
9to5mac reports that “An Apple tech support email said: “iTunes is not being blocked in China from our end, but access to the iTunes Store IS restricted in some areas in China.”
A Computerworld post attempts to explain more of the international iTunes debacle.
Here is a ...
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