Ayu Removed from itunes USA store!!

[kendelle]

Maybe there's just a lapse of contract and they'll all be up again soon.

It's probably the same for Aus iTunes but I'll check it when I next use my laptop

I bought Rule/Sparkle on iTunes and some of BoA's new album, maybe I'm one of very few!

[gothicayu]

i wonder why they removed everything

[dreamland2.0]

That's extremely odd. I'm surprised at Rule/Sparkle being gone as Dragonball premiers in North America in just a few days! What if someone wants to listen to Ayu!!

[ren0210989]

i hope it's as someone stated and they're just upgrading iTunes, so all of J-music will be back up soon

[vuong22]

ya almost all Jpop is removed Ayu, BoA ect

[Choyan]

if it's off the US store, it'll be off all the other itunes (minus Japan?) considering that's were teh biggest "western" market would be, no?

it's also not on the NZ itunes now either v-v not that I shop on itunes either lol XD

[SURREAL__RAINBOW]

shes gone here in Australia also!!


OMG

[chloeM]

but why?

[kendelle]

I would have thought that it would be a simple case of upgrading iTunes internal links to post files without DRM...if they don't come back soon it might pay to email them about it

[YotaLM21]

I found out that same thing just yesterday!!!

This is terrible

[ArchangelLegend]

"As of April 7th, all the songs sold in the iTunes Store have no Digital Rights Management (DRM) meaning they can be copied without restrictions. Also, Apple has agreed to tiered pricing. Some newer, popular songs have increased in price to $1.69 USD and some backlist songs have been reduced to $. 69 USD, some have remained at .99. If Apple was unable to secure the rights to sell a song without DRM, they removed it from sale."

I just copied and paste that from some guy in the Apple forums. It may be true. The tiered pricing seems true too, though instead of $1.69, I'm seeing $1.29.

[kendelle]

Originally Posted by ArchangelLegend

"As of April 7th, all the songs sold in the iTunes Store have no Digital Rights Management (DRM) meaning they can be copied without restrictions. Also, Apple has agreed to tiered pricing. Some newer, popular songs have increased in price to $1.69 USD and some backlist songs have been reduced to $. 69 USD, some have remained at .99. If Apple was unable to secure the rights to sell a song without DRM, they removed it from sale."

I just copied and paste that from some guy in the Apple forums. It may be true. The tiered pricing seems true too, though instead of $1.69, I'm seeing $1.29.

Oh, I can totally see Avex agreeing to that

[ALfromHELLSING]

^Haha so true. But still that is bad that everything is removed.

[StarSUCKER]

Well frankly...this blows. *sigh*

[C+R+E+AYUMI]

Originally Posted by CeReSu

At my last visit on my itunes store, GUILTY and Rule/Sparkle were available!
As Utada Hikaru and BoA for some exemple!

I saw about 2 weeks ago Rule/Sparkle too

[AyUta]

Wow. that sucks.

[roanmy]

She was removed from the Norwegian one too. Probably because Apple is trying to make iTunes DRM free.

[hikaricore]

^I'm sure that's all it is.
Please, don't worry everyone.

[ストロボ・EdGE]

That's terrible! I was putting off buying some stuff there too T_T I guess I'll have to buy the rest at iTunes Japan

[RikkuChii]

So...they might put it back up?