Amazon's Music Store Going Global This Year
We continue to be impressed at how quickly Amazon's amazonmp3 store has come in just a few months. What was a plucky little start-up recently became the first digital music vendor to offer copy protection-free tunes from all the major music labels, all in a format playable on nearly any digital music player in the world. The only thing holding it back it was geography, but that's set to change soon with Amazon.com announcing its download service will be going global this year.
Right now you have to be living in the U.S. of A. to purchase music from amazonmp3. The site requires a U.S. billing address and a U.S. credit card. There are ways around this, of course; if you happen to have generous American friends or relatives willing to let you use their plastic you can download the tracks from anywhere. Likewise, since the music is free of copy protection, those friends or relatives could just download them and send them to you, assuming of course they then deleted their copies. But, all that is a little questionable legally, and a bit of a pain to say the least, points that should make this international expansion of the company's store welcome news to many.
No word just yet of exactly when Amazon.com will loose its tracks on the global market, nor are there any details of which countries will be covered and by which labels. We'll bring that info when we have it.
From Reuters
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