Numerous complaints from internet users in China led to the conclusion that Beijing authorities have closed access to Apple’s iTunes Store. The probably governmental measure coincided with the news came via an activist group that about 40 Olympic athletes have downloaded a pro-Tibet benefit album from Apple’s digital music service.

Chinese Web users said they were unable to connect to the online music store and, when they tried, they received error messages. Although Apple Inc said its U.S. online digital music store doesn’t support access from outside the country, Chinese users insisted they were able to access the Web site before the alleged government measure.

The 20-song, pro-Tibet album called “Songs of Tibet” was labeled as offensive by a post on the Chinese government’s official Internet Information Center China.org. The post said that the Chinese web users actually called for the measure and wanted to boycott all Apple products as well as forbidding access to China to singers which contributed to “Songs of Tibet” such as Sting, John Mayer, Moby and Dave Matthews.

The page of the same pro-Tibet album from Amazon.com also couldn’t be reached within China, The New York Times reported, quoting IDG News Service. Michael Wohl, executive director of the Art of Peace Foundation, said that, although it has no evidence, he is confident that the Chinese authorities closed access to the sites which sold the “offensive” album. Wohl was very plastic in his description of the case saying that Beijing has used the “Great Firewall of China” in order to block access to iTunes, the Amazon and YouTube links of complaint from Chinese Web users.