Today I ended up trying to buy mp3's from the french amazon store. I wasn't really paying attention - but after I had added my third track to my shopping basket I realized that none of the tracks had been added to it :-( First thing I did was to install the amazon download application thinking that it would solve my issue. It didn't so I read the error message more carefully and it stated that dues to geographical locations I was unable to buy the mp3 and that I needed to read the page more carefully. I did , but on any song/mp3 page from amazon there is no clue that buying mp3 is geographically restricted.
Now I live in nl and was trying to buy from amazon.fr, so I tried amazon.nl which redirects to amazon.co.uk , and I end up with the same issue. I don't understand why the music industry is making it so difficult for me to just buy music in digital form. If I buy CDs they'll get shipped to me. Why can I buy the CD, rip the mp3 and not just buy the mp3 myself ?
So just because I don't live in the right country I can't buy a mp3 but I can buy the CD form the same store.
I'm wondering if there is a complain filled against the music industry at the European commission ? This restriction is clearly against the European goal, which state that citizen and goods should flow easily across all Europe. Is the music trying to tell me that a digital mp3 file is not a good ? so if it's not a good, it's a service right ? But what applies to goods and citizen also applies to services.
Anybody knows how to file a complain, so I can get the right to buy my mp3 on a french store while living in another european country ? I would love to get some answers to the above questions ......
>And every one forgot the customers and their needs...
That's what pisses me off in that case. They could make money and for crap reasons they won't. Same applies to ads before movies on DVDs.
>VillaMusicRights
That might be a great solution , but doesn't carry the music titles I wanted.
Try something else. VillaMusicRights is an internationale website for composers who want to manage their own music copyright and for home and business users of their music. Downloads for home users are free.
There is so many things to write about rights and music lovers. Apple brought a beginning of a solution with years of hard work with rights managers and older. I remember that they began with selling music from Luxembourg to all european contries but one by one with agreements signed in each country. Maybe Amazon did not the same work. And every one forgot the customers and their needs...