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iTunes is back in China, minus Songs for Tibet

Posted by Cyrus Farivar | Tuesday, August 26, 2008 11:36 AM PT

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 foreign residents still use the service to download music from their home countries’ stores (an action which actually technically violates iTunes’s terms of sale).”

Any readers in China that can verify this?

Comments (1)

Im using the Swedish iTunes frm here in China and that has worked just fine with my Swedish credit card. Last Saturday until this Monday I could not get into the shop though but now its all fine again.

daniel
August 27, 2008
12:17 AM PT

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