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Itunes banned in China
THE BLOKE WHO managed to get Apple's Itunes banned in China said he didn't intend that to happen.
China always keeps an eye on strange religions so Apple's music market place would have been carefully monitored. When Mike Wohl , the executive director of The Art of Peace Foundation, posted a pro-Dalai Lama music download it was immediately spotted and the site taken down.
The album, Songs for Tibet, was offered as a free download to athletes attending the Olympic Games. Apparently 40 athletes are thought to have taken up the offer.
Wohl claimed that the campaign to recruit Olympians was not intended to make a big political statement and he didn’t want to get Apple into trouble.
The album features the work of popular beat combo artists such as Sting, Moby, Suzanne Vega and Alanis Morissette.
Wohl also defended Apple, saying the company' was nothing more than an innocent bystander in all this. µ
L'Inq
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So if you want to kill a service in China just use it with something Tibet related. I wonder why people still need botnets to do DOS attacks.
Strange how someone so smart can wind up 180 degrees in the wrong direction in politics.
...and I thought that the Chinese Goverment had wised up to Apple's tactics in gaining marketshare by using people.
Itunes banned in China.

Everyone will read this except the Chinese people. 

Ask a well educated Chinese student about the Tiananmen Square Massacre and they have no idea what you are talking about. Show them the picture...you know the picture...the man in front of tanks...no clue. What happened to that man? Almost 20 years later, we still do not know, and it has been erased from their history. 

"We have always been at war with Oceania." 

Perhaps the Apples, Googles, and Ciscos of the world should show some ethics and not do business with China. 

Who am I kidding...
I seem to recall some INQ correspondent from China touting just how "free" his web access has become as of four months ago. I wonder how he's enjoying it now?
The music might be bad and Apple is just a soulless corporation, nothing more, however, we are living in sad times indeed if the victim feels obligated to apologize and plead with the opressors. I wonder why we still bother to call them communists, they are way too efficient and daring for that.
I've also banned Sting, Moby, Suzanne Vega and Alanis Morissette. However, The Police are still tops though and they will never be banned here unless it's some crappy reunion album.

Furthermore, I've completely banned Itunes bloatware from both my pc and my macbook pro.
How do you figure? Why is it the 'wrong direction'?

I totally agree, jeff e. If the large corporations refused to conduct business with China unless/until they got their human rights standards up to scratch, they would surely capitulate eventually.

It always comes back to money sooner or later...