Release country for digital media: What stores are international?

[August_Janse]

@jesus2099

Some people can set [worldwide] while people having confirmed a specific country will be welcome to add it to the list of release events (without removing the [worldwide]).

It reminds me of the “country” Europe (no release could possibly be Europe‐wide), which « should be considered an inferior piece of data, but acceptable until the proper release country can be determined. »But in the end, Europe remains set together with the specific set of countries. I’m thinking of mailing a few stores about their restrictions to see if I get a reply.

I hadn’t thought about this, but it seems reasonable to handle Europe and [Worldwide] this way. Of course, for unrestricted digital media releases, their release country should actually be [Worldwide]. Why did your style ticket regarding this get rejected?

@Rovastar

What is your proposal here?

Have multiple different country types [worldwide except north korea] [worldwide expect north Korea and Iran] etc?

Maybe [worldwide] should be “mostly” worldwide.

But soon all new releases will be digital and [worldwide] anyway …

I’m not proposing anything right now, but I anticipated these questions to arise. I think it would be useful to have some facts about the major stores as a basis of discussion before making any changes. If there were just one major store that didn’t restrict their services at all, this wouldn’t be a problem.

I’m inspired by scripts such as the iTunes import script setting the country of the local store as the release country, but if [Worldwide] and Europe should be considered placeholders they should probably set both the specific country and [Worldwide].