China has unblocked iTunes. But you have to take the step of picking which country’s store you’re going to use, which makes it a little more difficult to grab that Tibet album that started the whole kerfuffle.  But if you really want to, you still can get it.

So the music hasn’t died in China.  iTunes is alive.  Or to paraphrase Pepsi’s first ad campaign in China, iTunes now can bring your dead ancestors back to life.

Thank goodness.  I’d hate for my Chinese friends to have to buy pirated versions of “Never Gonna Give You Up.”

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