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Originally Posted by HarryT
The ultimate blame has to be assigned to authors for signing country-specific distribution contracts, rather than assigning world-wide rights to a single publisher.
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I'd rather place the blame on whoever decided that for electronic goods the "place of sale" was to be the purcharer's computer, which then leads to credit-card-address tests, which check something entirely different.
The same "geographic restrictions" have existed for paper books for long, and that just meant you had to go to amazon.com to buy American editions or to amazon.co.uk to buy British editions, but I could get either from Spain, and pay whatever publisher had the rights... But with ebooks I cannot buy any one. The problem is not geographic restrictions per se, it's the way they are implemented.