The iTunes Store is accessible once again from China, following local internet police moving to block access to the media service last week in a spat over a pro-Tibet album sold through iTunes.

It's an odd example of censorship despite that - the web page for downloading the pro-Tibet album, which is suspected of prompting the crackdown, remains unavailable on the service, claims SFGate.

iTunes users in China - including athletes in the Olympic village, 40 of which downloaded the album before the censors interrupted sales - began having iTunes access problems last week.

It's thought it was an attempt to censor sales and awareness of a pro-Tibet compilation album, "Songs for Tibet," an album released by the Art of Peace Foundation in support of Tibetan independence.

The interesting new twist comes in the form of an article on a Chinese government website which claims the album had "ignited strong indignation" among Chinese web users. That report even threatened a future boycott of Apple products, including the iPhone.

Whether Apple CEO Steve Jobs - known for his life-long interest in Buddhism - will listen to this threat is impossible to speculate.