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      3 months ago

      iTunes music store is not available in mainland China, which is 1/5 of the world’s population

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        3 months ago

        Yes, but this is about what is available in most countries, not what is available in all countries. That still leaves 119 markets and 80% of the world’s population being available. Pretty sure that counts as “most.”

        Also, the point isn’t about iTunes, it’s about alternatives to CDs for digital music. China likely has some online store to buy music, but I have no idea.

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          3 months ago

          They do, maybe, but the streaming services often can’t get the original master so they play rerecordings of the songs

          I just pirate it

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          3 months ago

          To make the claim 80% of population has it you have to have the numbers, since South Korea doesn’t have it, a lot of African countries (just going down the list, Algeria, Angola, Benin, etc) don’t have it

          It looks like half of the world doesn’t have iTunes music purchases