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Music labels’ YouTube-powered music video site Vevo may have had a glitzy launch in New York on Tuesday – but on Wednesday many who hit the site for the first time found it crashing under traffic weight, and everyone outside the U.S. and Canada who hits Vevo.com is getting the same, spartan message they have for months: “We’re sorry, Vevo is not available in your country.”

Country-by-country difficulties for online music services are nothing new – the complexity of licensing tunes across nations, let alone across Europe’s 27 member states – is enough to test even a giant’s will to roll out, and delayed MySpace Music there by a year; Lala still doesn’t work overseas, Spotify is trying to get U.S. licenses.

But Vevo does aim to launch outside North America next year… [Read More]