Finally We Have iTunes Store in UAE (but only for AppStore)

[ultrablue662]

You're wrong Ultra. There are laws against piracy here in the UAE. And there is a copyright protection devision in the Ministry of Economic (which was previously in the Ministry of Information) that handle these matters.

If there were no laws, you would've seen pirated copies of DVDs, Audio CDs, and Games being sold in Virgin, Carrefour and other big outlets. But it's not the case!

As an example, in Egypt there was no such law. So you can find pirated PS2 & PC games as well as Audio CDs sold in Carrefour last year. Things have changed now!

Please check my post, I said we DO have copyright laws when it comes to physical matter. DVDs, CDs, Books. Please dont correct me unless you are capable of comprehending what I posted.

My exact words:

"We hardly have effective piracy laws when it comes to physical matter, (CDs, DVDs, Boks...)"

We do have them. They arent that EFFECTIVE, but they do exist. for something to be effective or not they must exist.

We know they exist because, as you put it, you cant buy pirated media at your local supermarket

We know they arent effective, because for the last 16 years, I've bought pirated media from the same shop in Hamdan Center in Abu Dhabi.

That is the difference between having them, and having effective ones. Once again, Make sure you have read fully my posts before telling me I am wrong.

As for the downloading part, no such law exists in the UAE. There are VERY VAGUE laws regarding gaining unlawful access to systems that you are not authorized to be in, and matters comparable. But NO law against downloading media.

This is a translation of the UAE's cyber law, or rather, the part that has to do with downloading:

5.2 Infringements

Infringements have been loosely defined to include any infringement of the moral and/or economic rights of the rights holder, including placing a work in the public domain, reproducing, selling and rental, illegal producing or importing, downloading unlicensed software and applications, and failing to mention the author's name.

Once again, there are No laws here against downloading music, or anything other than software. And even then, I dont think since this law's creation, in 2002, has one person be convicted of this.

translation taken from: Trench & Associates: Legal Consultancy

[sanjeevpunj]

Access to itunes store is still a technical issue unresolved. Even Appstores doesnt work because when i tried buying an app, it asked me to login into I-tunes, and when i try using the Apple ID, I get a message that "Could not Complete the i-Tunes stores request." This has to be resolved first before making any purchase successful. Wonder who is working on this, Apple or Etisalat or both?