purchasing songs from iTunes: USA vs. ...

I live in California and was one of the people who purchased Japanese iTunes gift cards online in order to buy Japanese songs off of the Japanese version of iTunes.

I have not done this recently, but desired to do so again to get some more music for my new iPhone, only to be presented with a pop up announcing a new end user licensed agreement.

An excerpt..
"Japan sales only

Purchases from the iTunes Store are available to you only in Japan and are not available in any other location. You agree no to use or attempt to use service from outside of the available territory. iTunes may use technologies to verify such compliance."

That statement in the EULA is very straight forward and blunt, a stop sign right in your face.

But I still want clarification on it, I have not yet gone past the prompt, but does that apply to those who buy the Japanese iTunes gift cards with in the states?

I understand music licenses and such.. being a anime/jpop/jrock nut and often being frustrated when there is a particular show or music you want to acquire, and to acquire it legally, only to be stopped over and over again by "this is not yet licensed for sale in your country" and such..

I was hoping that iTunes would provide a legal venue for an American to browse and purchase Japanese media, songs that I already want and others that I have not yet experienced yet. Browsing all of those Japanese artists is really neat! Using the preview song feature is really great, you can listen to a bands song you have never heard of before! And some of those Japanese bands may never be licensed or sold in disc form inside the United States.

Thanks for any clarification that any one could provide.
Pingchan1

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