Comments on: Diana Krall – The Look of Love – MP3 download – $1.99 http://www.geardiary.com/2009/01/14/diana-krall-the-look-of-love/ Everyone can understand technology; sometimes it just takes a little translating. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:16:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: melvynadamhttp://www.geardiary.com/2009/01/14/diana-krall-the-look-of-love/#comment-41777 melvynadam Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:06:31 +0000 http://www.geardiary.com/?p=19510#comment-41777 Nice deal. I got excited and went to the site to buy it. "Amazon MP3 Purchases are limited to U.S. customers." Can anyone give me a good reason why? The purchasing deal goes like this: I pay, you get money, I get the item. What difference where I am in the world? They'll sell me a CD of the same album and mail it to me so that in two weeks I can listen to Ms Krall but in order to listen to her today, I have to move to America. Crazy. Nice deal. I got excited and went to the site to buy it.

“Amazon MP3 Purchases are limited to U.S. customers.”

Can anyone give me a good reason why? The purchasing deal goes like this: I pay, you get money, I get the item. What difference where I am in the world? They’ll sell me a CD of the same album and mail it to me so that in two weeks I can listen to Ms Krall but in order to listen to her today, I have to move to America. Crazy.

]]> By: alesehttp://www.geardiary.com/2009/01/14/diana-krall-the-look-of-love/#comment-41776 alese Thu, 15 Jan 2009 07:54:12 +0000 http://www.geardiary.com/?p=19510#comment-41776 I'm so naive. Every so often I try something like that and end up with: "Sorry but this is only available to US customers..." I really don't get it sometimes, the beauty of the net (at least in my opinion) is to be able to reach anyone everywhere, especially if we talk about digital content (no shipping), and yet the reality is just the opposite. I know that there are possibly legal/copyright issues involved, but still - I live in EU - a developed market of 400 million people and when it comes to legal purchasing of digital music and you don't live in France, Germany or UK you are pretty much out of luck completely... So basically I can only try to buy a CD - if it's available to my country for 5-10 times the price or illegally download, and then the RIAA and others complain about illegal downloads. I’m so naive.
Every so often I try something like that and end up with:
“Sorry but this is only available to US customers…”

I really don’t get it sometimes, the beauty of the net (at least in my opinion) is to be able to reach anyone everywhere, especially if we talk about digital content (no shipping), and yet the reality is just the opposite. I know that there are possibly legal/copyright issues involved, but still – I live in EU – a developed market of 400 million people and when it comes to legal purchasing of digital music and you don’t live in France, Germany or UK you are pretty much out of luck completely…

So basically I can only try to buy a CD – if it’s available to my country for 5-10 times the price or illegally download, and then the RIAA and others complain about illegal downloads.

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