Unless your computer is physically in the USA, iTunes 10 rejects all payment methods (Visa, Mastercard, PayPal) where the account is registered as being in the USA.

Under its current terms it clearly states:

The Service is available to you only in the United States, its territories, and possessions. You agree not to use or attempt to use the Service from outside these locations. Apple may use technologies to verify your compliance.

So all of us who use the US store but are not currently living there are now no longer able to purchase anything. In the last 5 days my account has had the same problem. Contacting Apple has yet to produce a solution and the blogs are exploding with ire and profanity regarding this shift in procedures.

After 5 years of faithfully supporting Apples products and services my money is no longer good enough for Apple as of iTunes 10. I tried connecting with a US VPN, but no dice. I guess the technologies to verify sense the presence of a VPN or other masking device and proceed with the lockout. A US phone number, bank account, verified address and SSN is not enough to use the US store – you must BE THERE too.

Microsoft does this with their xbox live service and now it seams Apple is following them down this dark road of discrimination. Apple will pull out their picket signs of “Yanks go home!” shortly. LOL.

No solution has been found as of the writing of this post.

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