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rhythmbox-ubuntuone-music-store package

Please describe the region classification

Asked by Bernd Schlapsi

In the FAQ of the ubuntuone music store (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOne/MusicStore) there is the following question.
Q: What regions of the world will be able to purchase songs?

But the answer isn't clear enough. Why is canonical restricting the full access to the 7digital store only to 3 countries? 7digital offer a lot more countries on their website. So this couldn't be a license issue?!

Canonicals choice:
- Germany
- USA
- UK

additional choice from 7digitial:
- Austria - http://www.7digital.at/
- Belgium - http://nl-be.7digital.com/
- Canada - http://ca.7digital.com/
- Spain - http://www.7digital.es/
- Finland - http://fi.7digital.com/
- France - http://fr.7digital.com/
- Ireland - http://www.7digital.ie/
- Italy - http://www.7digital.it/
- Netherlands - http://nl.7digital.com/
- Norway - http://no.7digital.com/
- Portugal - http://pt.7digital.com/
- Switzerland - http://de-ch.7digital.com/
- Sweden - http://se.7digital.com/

Would be nice to see an explanation why you lock out 13 countries from the full access to the store?!

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Gerhard (gerhard-rauniak-gmail) said : 		#1

This is really annoying. But I hope Canonical will change it in the near future.

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Duane Hinnen (duanedesign) said : 		#2

Q: What regions of the world will be able to purchase songs?
Most popular songs are licensed by territory (basically by country). Our starting territories will be the UK, US, Germany, the rest of the EU (EU countries outside of the UK and Germany), and the rest of the world (countries outside the EU and US). Customers who use the EU store will have access to purchase songs from two of the four major labels. Customers who use the World store will have access to purchase songs from independent labels.

Update 27 Feb, 2010: Perhaps we could have been a bit more clear about this. Customers who use the UK, US, and Germany stores will have access to purchase songs from all major and independent music labels.

Canonical will analyze usage of the EU and World stores after the 10.04 launch to decide which territories would be best for expansion. Watch the Ubuntu One blog in the months following the launch of Ubuntu 10.04 for more information.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOne/MusicStore

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Bernd Schlapsi (bernd-sch) said : 		#3

Yes I know the FAQ for this question.
But it would be nice if Canonical could be a bit more clear about the reason why they only have 3 countries with full access and 7digital.com offers 16 countries (see my first question).
Is it really that hard to include the other 13 stores from 7digital?

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#4

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