Is China blocking iTunes over Tibet album?
SETH WEINTRAUB:
Is the great firewall of China really blocking foreign users in the country from accessing the iTunes music store? According to many iTunes users in China (Apple China doesn't have a domestic iTunes store) they were cut off from iTunes store since Monday. Appleinsider forum poster jenjen2008 says:
"I am in Shanghai and have been able to use iTunes for 3 years now with no problems, but for the past two days I get an immediate message that the 'network connection was reset,'"
Others say that they can access iTunes without issue - perhaps all of the global Olympics traffic is halting some internet access..
The real cause, say many including Reuters, is the release of Songs for Tibet - The Art of Peace (iTunes Link), a compilation of twenty songs by Sting, Alanis Morissette, Garbage, John Mayer and others, and a 15-minute talk by the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan leader. READ IT ALL
