On Monday, November 3, 2003, at 12:53 pm, G-Books wrote:
Has anybody else (in the US) ran into this? I just installed iTunes 4.1, and when I started iTunes and went to the Music Store, I got a message saying that "the iTunes Music Store is not yet available in your country." Huh!? Since when is it not available in the US? (I'm in Indiana.) I never got this message under 4.0. I'm running 10.2.8, and I have never bought any songs or set up an account with the IMS yet. Does anyone have any idea why I'm getting this message? How does iTunes figure out what country I'm in? I've spent at least an hour searching the Knowledge Base with no answers.
Well I get it all the time of course, being based in the UK. As to 'how does it know?' - I don't know, in fact.
I've just tried a little experiment - I set all my International and Date/Time settings to US and rebooted. It made no difference.
Possibly something to do with IP addresses? - I believe that most ISPs in the UK and Europe use a particular slice of the available Class 3 addresses, so you could make some sort of judgement from that. It wouldn't be foolproof, though.
Or maybe there's just something in the OS that identifies the region where it was sold, a config file somewhere.
Tom Burke
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