ITunes Store ("iTunes Music Store" before September 12, 2006) is a music store operated by Apple Computer and needs to be connected through iTunes software. It opened on April 28th, 2003, which proved the possibility of selling music through the Internet. By June 5438+ 10, 2009, iTunes Store had sold more than 6 billion songs, accounting for more than 70% of the global online music sales. The downloaded music files are restricted in use and protected by Apple's "fair play" digital rights management technology. On June 6, 2009, at 65438, Apple announced that 80% of the music in the catalog of the conversion store was protected by copyright, and it will reach 100% in April, and the sound quality will be improved to 256kbps.
In Asia, at present, there are iTunes Store in Hongkong, Taiwan Province Province, Singapore, Japan and other regions, including downloading services of music, movies and blogs, while only the App Store, books and blogs under Chinese mainland are open for purchase and download.