International Community Getting Screwed by United States
There is a list companies that have online stores for the United States and have a similar stores for it's international community. Despite that, we (the international community) are getting a striped down version of US stores with less content. Their response to this is that "it is because of licensing restrictions," I find this a stupid and arrogant move by them and by the people who create the content for their stores. There is stuff on these stores that people from other parts of the world would like to buy but they just can't. I can't see why you wouldn't allow them to buy what they want. It's more money in the pockets of the content creators isn't that what they want? If the content is not available the people will just pirate the content they want anyway. I think they should have only one store with all the content available to the world. For the money differences you could take the Microsoft, and Nintendo approach and use a point system, which I like very much, or you could make the interface to display the currency specified by the user. Personally I like the point system better. I do feel that stores now like iTunes have got one thing right, and that is the ability of buying pre-paid cards which you can use on these stores.
I would like to state for the record I have US account for my iTunes Store which I fill with pre-paid cards when I go to the states.