iTunes blocks my first attempt to buy from them

iTunes blocks my first attempt to buy from them January 29, 2007

Speaking of major movie studios boycotting Canada

I had heard recently that the new, CGI-enhanced version of the original Star Trek (1966-1969) had been made available at iTunes. So I figured I would go and shell out two bucks for a sample episode, just to see how the new effects look. But I couldn’t find it at the iTunes store. So I did a bit of Googling, and found links to the various Star Trek-related iTunes items at this blog. But when I click on them, my iTunes program gives me this message:

Your request could not be completed.
The item you’ve requested is not currently available in the Canadian Store.

Actually, that’s the message I get now. The last time I tried one of the links, it was a little longer, and it asked me if I wanted to switch to the U.S. store. So I did. And then, when I said I wanted to buy an episode, iTunes asked me to create an Apple account. And then it asked me if my credit card’s billing address was in a country other than the U.S. And then when I selected Canada, my iTunes program went right back to the Canadian store. Arrrrgh.

It’s almost as though the studios want us to resort to piracy.


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