China may be open to the Olympics, but it has shut off access to Apple’s iTunes Store — apparently considering of a new album committed to Tibet. According to the album’s sponsoring organization, more than 40 Olympic athletes from North America, Europe and China downloaded it “as an act of solidarity with Tibet” before the shutdown.

The New York-based Art of Peace Foundation has charged the Chinese government with trying to block access to Songs for Tibet, which

features music by Sting, Moby, John Mayer, Dave Matthews, Alanis Morissette, rubbish and others, as well as 15 minutes of talking by exiled Tibetan leader the Dalai Lama.

Apple Investigating

The group has described China’s blocking of Net sites that it dislikes as “The Great Firewall of China,” and it has called the album “a celebration of Tibet and the Dalai Lama’s philosophy of peace, nonviolence and compassion.” While there […]

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