The /. posting notes that Cisco was quick to remove the announcement however Meraki has yet to react. The post is in their "About Us" section, http://www.meraki.com/company/about

"Cisco to acquire Meraki
In November 2012, Cisco announced its intent to acquire Meraki for $1.2 billion in cash. When the acquisition completes, Meraki will form Cisco’s new Cloud Networking group, led by Meraki CEO Sanjit Biswas. Cisco and Meraki are committed to supporting Meraki’s customers and partners, and to continue to improve and expand all of Meraki’s product lines."

Fortunatly I am from Canada and can take advantage of cheaper pricing. However, my complaint is an echo of yours, "access to other music". Unfortunatly Itunes-Canada sucks a** compared to the UK or US. (Never really checked out Japan - but I will after this post) and most of the time I have to simply patiently wait your use some P2P software instead. Though I've been wondering lately if I can get my greedy paws on an American credit card so that I can have the best of both worlds :) Then again, I'm sure there's somekind of govt. gestapo law that stops me from doing just that :P