ITunes Store

The iTunes Store, launched in 2003, offers the public access to an online store catalogue of millions of songs &mdash; each of which has been licensed for distribution from copyright owners &mdash; availasble for purchase by anyone with a personal computer. Comsumers can purchase songs from the iTunes Store with a credit or debit card, using PayPal, or using a prepaid stored-value iTunes Card, and that music purchase is then downloaded directly to the purchaser's personal computer over a fast, secure, and reliable network.