I know it's just resumé-speak, but...

Microsoft Corporation
I was part of an elite team of business development and technology professionals tasked with answering Netscape's threat to Microsoft's dominance in desktop and server technology.

Horrors! Microsoft's dominance is being threatened! To arms, gentlemen, to arms! This must not stand!

*n/m*

I've never had a problem that required re-installing the OS, that sounds more like a windows solution to a crash. As I don't live in the US so I haven't used iTMS but it seems that he simply deleted the authentication for his songs.

Its quite likely that the only solution at the moment would be to travel back to the states or wait for iTMS to be available in Canada to authenicate. It probably requires a US ip address at the moment.

agreement says. Here it is:

"U.S. SALES ONLY
Purchases from the iTunes Music Store are available only in the United States and are not available in any other location. You agree not to use or attempt to use the service from outside of the available territory. Apple may use technologies to verify such compliance."

He DID purchase them in the US. He was not attempting to purchase the songs again, he simply wanted access to the songs he bought while in the US. I guess the question is, what does "use the service" mean. Buy songs? Download songs?

http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/southparkbiggerlongeruncut/blamecanada.htm

I doubt he tried to redownload his purchases, since you can't do that with the iTMS. Once you download, that's it: no back-up, have to purchase again. At least as far as I know. I think the problem stemmed from his restoring his backed-up purchases and then having to reauthorize his Mac. The credit card number he used for authorization now has a Canadian billing address, so it wouldn't authorize. I suspect that if he still holds a US credit card with a US billing address, he could use that to re-authorize his PowerBook and play the songs, no problem.

from purchasing any more music. Not that I plan to leave the US any time soon. It just makes me wonder what happens over a period of time that I may go without internet access. How will Apple check up on me. I would like to know what was done to tip Apple that he was in Canada. Does Apple refund his money?

Hmmm.

You guys are so silly...

Doesn't Canadian Government placed a heavy tax on entertainment (aka: musics). I think the Canadian Goverment prevented him from playing his musics until such time he pay entertainment tax.

How many times have you heard... BACK UP YOUR DATA BEFORE YOU REINSTALL. If he would have made a CD of his songs, he could have re-installed them.

f****** CANADIAN PIECE OF s***, who worked for MS.

Couldn't back up his music?
Assclown

we are Mac users. We are intolerant. Anyone who does not love Mac must work for Microsoft are is a M$ lover. We hate you all. That is why our marketshare is ever shrinking....

PEOPLE!

The guy runs a competing site that also sells digital music.

So he slams Apple and creates FUD!!!

Well look it up yourself at shawnyeager.com. That guy actually worked for M$, and he also worked for a company in the online music retail business.

http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/200307/msg00150.html

"Thanks to William in the Apple Music Store group... it appears that I received bad information from their customer support organization, and he's working on restoring my ability to play the purchased songs."

Just he doesn't know how to deal with Apple... Keep calling and when all else fails fire off a nice letter to jobs@apple.com

> Just he doesn't know how to deal with Apple... Keep calling and when all else fails fire off a nice letter to jobs@apple.com

... and receive a confused reply from Apple's employment group.

I'm not in the US, and I'm currently listening to music downloaded from the Music Store. (The Moody Blues' "The Voice", _Long Distance Voyager_ album, if you must know.) All that is necessary is that you have a credit card with a billing address in the United States. Which I do.

Musta froze or somethin

who really cares? one imbecile is going to dictate how apple does business?

simple rules to live by: if don't back up your data, you risk losing it. if you move around the world, you have to live like the natives do. don't like it? tough s***.

You loser f***.

I erased and low-level formatted my hardrive. Then all my apps, songs, docs and even the OS just "dissappeared". It must be because of some lame licensing by Apple. Apple sure sucks, they don't let you erase your hardrive and keep your data. I shouldn't need to back up, that is only for business users.

I live overseas and purchase music from the iTunes Music Store all the time. Your physical location is of no importance to ITMS. All that is required is a credit card with a US address. That is all. I live in Asia, I keep a credit card with my parent's US address, and I have no problems using the service. This guy just sounds like an idiot who probably couldn't figure out the service even if he lived in the US.

Perhaps some of you guys can start a business, issuing pre-paid US credit cards, then anyone anywhere can buy one, and get music from anywhere around the world. I know the mall sells prepaid credit cards, perhaps I will try this out.

f*** you right back you loud mouth internet p****!

if you want to bypass audio file protection,

hijack the audio file to a new file.

this is done by capturing audio playback from one app and recording it to the same hard disk in real time.

open the new file with iTunes. Manually recreate the tags.

convert it to MP3 or MP4, whatever.

then, when the original file is de-authed,

if you can find it, delete it.

if you do not understand this, visit www.rogueaomeba.com

actively seek out your entertainment dollar.

in the future no one may remain to defend you.

Could someone please edit this article? Songs play fine anywhere in the world, of course. You just can't redownload them from outside the U.S.A.

As the article stands it's nothing more than anti-Apple misinformation.

I didn't even know you *could* redownload from iTMS without buying again. If so, that's good news. One of the things that kept me from buying from iTMS was that in the event of data loss without an up-to-the-minute back-up, you would have to repurchase the music.

See the latest revelation from Mr Yeager at:

http://algorhythm.org/archives/2003/07/25/apple_drm_and_me.html

It seems that he started the fire first and then resolved the issue with Apple Support...

Why are you Americans so down on every other country? Most of you fat losers haven't left the USA so how can you judge?

This guy with a HIGHLY SUSPICIOUS background starts a FUD campaign on one forum, then after people start checking his resume he posts a resolution on another forum?

I think this was a test balloon that popped a little earlier than someone would have liked.

I agree that this story (on MacNN) needs to be amended.

C'mon . . this is c*** . . .

I download music wherever I go with an internet connection and there's no problem. Brazil, South Africa etc. You just need a credit card with a US address.

Maybe I should not say this but I am not in the us and I have bought over 90 songs, How?
Well Steve says "You need a credit card with a us billing adress" whell I have two of them, but I live somewhere in Mexico just across the border from US.
I just hope apple cant delete all the songs I have bought.

This is irresponsible news reporting on the part of MacNN!!!

The songs WILL play in ANY country. What has happened to this user is he had to RE AUTHORIZE the songs, and to do that, you must prove you are the original purchaser and provide them with a US credit-card.

The tittle should have been "iTMS Songs wont Re-Authorizer without a US Credit Card"

As it is right now, the title of this story is a blatant lie, and only serves to cause FUD. MacNN should be ashamed of itself.

Mine aren't erased. I'm in Leeds, UK right now and I'm listening to some of my ITMS music right now. He just fuked up his 'puter.

You can tell when Apple screws something up. They simply don't comment.

My wife is Canadian. We travel up there all the time. I get online purchase and download music all the time from ITMS while in Canada. I have never had a problem and yes my billing address is in th USA. I also back my data up often.

BTW: Who the h*** reinstalls the whole OS anymore?

I live in the US and bought music from iTMS. I also have another computer in Canada in my in-laws place and I authorized the same music from a dial-up account in Canada. I had no problems.

> My wife is Canadian.

Delicious, you get Canadian a** and p**** every day. Lucky b******.

obviously YOU have never been married.

Step 1: Burn purchased music to CD
Step 2: Shut up.

There must be some misinterpretation or misuse going on here.

I bought and listened and downloaded music from iTMS while in the US and while in Europe as well. iTMS allows you to buy and d/l and listen and burn and put into iPod etc for as long as your cc has a US billing address.

iTMS indeed checks where your computer connects from (it warned me the first time I registered my account) but it does not prevent you to use it out of the US.

The first time I registered my iTMS account I was actually in Switzerland so also that is not an issue, I am currently in France and so far bought some 30 songs while in this country.

Cheers

Don't buy stuff in the United Snakes of America

Close our borders to losers from Canada and everywhere else....
Go f*** yourselves.

Close our borders to losers from Canada and everywhere else....
Go f*** yourselves.


Gee and who says Americans are self absorbed a*******.
What a tough guy...on the internet.

Yep.

self-absorbed a*******?"

Well, self-absorbed, f***** a******* from other lesser cuntries.

That's who tough guy, what are YOU going to do about it?

- what are YOU going to do about it?

Laugh at the same ignorant troll who's been invading these comment boards as of late.

As much as I am sensitive to the world population at large, you all have to admit the U.S. is the best. For example, all you worldly people spend most of your time on a message board praising a U.S. computer maker. I don't hear a peep about Peugeot or Duel Electronics.

Peugeot and Duel Electronics are not as widely available as Macs. I've never even heard of the latter.

As much as I am sensitive to the world population at large, you all have to admit the U.S. is the best.

... Yes, we know.. Just turn on the news.. American Brilliance is on display all the time