A bit off topic but related in a way to all digital music players, particularly those that play high res files.
I was just browsing HDTracks so see what all albums I'll download in high res, excited to be able to hear many familiar bands in high res for the 1st time but to my surprise many are stamped with:
"This product is not currently available due to region restrictions."
WTF
For an industry that has been whining and crying for years saying they are losing money hand over fist due to people "stealing" music via the Internet here I am, a willing, paying customer, basically saying please, take my money, I'll gladly pay for high res music and will knowingly pay a premium for it and I get basically we don't want your money, it's not good enough for us response. What an F'ed up industry. Don't you think they should be going out of their way to see that EVERYONE has access to this music so they can sell as much as possible?
This just blows my mind, I'm very disappointed.
I see that Acoustic Sounds has the same type of restrictions on the same albums. There is even a "Canada" section there. How sad. We can't even get Rush albums and Rush is a Canadian band. Apparently with a US record contract.