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The iTunes Store is blocked in China

by Michael Goonan on Aug 24, 2008 at 03:30 PM

Songs for Tibet
It seems the latest internet service to fall victim to the “Great Firewall of China” is Apple’s iTunes Store. According to a New York Times article, this is likely the Chinese government’s response to the “Songs for Tibet” benefit album, which features many popular artists—including Rush, John Mayer, Sting and Dave Matthews—that was released on iTunes on August 5th, just before the start of the Beijing Olympics.

The start of the problems coincided with an announcement from an activist group which said that around 40 Olympic athletes had downloaded a pro-Tibet benefit album that was also carried on iTunes.

The International Campaign for Tibet recently announced that more than 40 Olympic athletes had downloaded the album, which was produced by The Art of Peace Foundation

The album’s page on Amazon.com and and a video promoting it on YouTube also seem to be inaccessible in China.

Read [The New York Times]

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