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Itunes can launch music content in Russia!
One reliable russian news paper revealed this (google translator):
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Tunes music store will soon open for Russian users, told "Vedomosti" five sources in companies whose business is connected to the Internet and to the purchase of rights to musical works. According to them, the launch is scheduled for the IV quarter of 2012, but can move and I quarter of 2013 - it will depend on the success of negotiations with Russian record companies and rights holders. Apple prefers to enter new markets with the most complete catalog of music, explains one of the interlocutors "Vedomosti". But we already know that the cost of a single track in the Russian iTunes will be lower than in the U.S. ($ 0.99), he added. This is confirmed by other sources: in the Russian iTunes song can cost as Muz.ru - 11-20 rubles. depending on the performer. An Apple spokesman declined to comment.
Apple launched iTunes in 2003, the shop is now available in 37 countries. With iTunes you can buy music, store it on your computer or in the cloud (service iTunes Match). In Russia, for several years running only part iTunes - App Store AppStore.
About the full launch of Apple iTunes in Russia first thought in 2007 to stop her high level of piracy, says a person familiar with the staff of Apple: in those years was still working, for example, controversial allofmp3.com.
Apple has had a great chance to enter the Russian market with iTunes in 2008, when there only began selling iPhone, said Yevgeny Butman, co-owner and former shareholder Ideas4retail ECS Group (distributor and retailer of technology Apple). Now she will have to fight for a place in a dense competitive environment in much more difficult circumstances, he warns. Intense competition is not a problem, service manager objects "Yandeks.Muzyka" Konstantin Vorontsov: players in the legal music in runet more and less, and they all do - together forming the users acceptance of pirated content. The arrival of iTunes will only help the development of the market, he said.
To take significant market share in sales of music in runet, Apple will have to negotiate with the owners of rights for domestic music - the most popular in the country, warns fellow major Western majors. Vorontsov confirms, though of nearly 4 million tracks on "Yandeks.Muzyka" Russian only about 50,000, accounting for about 50% of auditions. In addition to the owners in talks with Apple online store Muz.ru (part of the group of IFH "Capital") for access to its music library, knows a source close to one of the owners. Muz.ru representative is not commenting.
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http://www.vedomosti.ru/tech/news/37...tunes_porusski
they blame piracy but they've just launched music content in Brunei and Bolivia. I mean really?
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