“If it seemed on late Wednesday like Apple’s rollout of iTunes Match to basically every international market where the iTunes music store is available was too good to be true, that’s because it was,” Darrell Etherington reports for GigaOM.

“Apple is telling customers on Thursday that beyond Brazil and the U.S., Match ‘will not function,’” Etherington reports. “The company is reportedly issuing refunds to customers who attempted to get in early.”

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