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neilmarr · 10-26-2010, 10:00 AM

IT GETS WORSE FOR SONY USERS IN EUROPE!

As I mentioned earlier, the Sony store is not an option outside the USA, so users are/were directed to Waterstones or Barnes & Noble. That's all, folks. We now know that outside the UK and Eire, Waterstones is off limits to other Europeans as of last week.

An hour ago, I tried to buy *Life* by Keith Richards at Barnes & Noble. Guess what ... we detect that your account is not registered in the UK or Eire and this ebook is not available to you for download.

So is B&N also off limits to continental Europe, too? In that case, it means that Sony users like me have nowhere to go for big-sellers now unless we strip DRM from an Amazon download (which I can't be arsed to do), and that's probably georestricted on this title, too -- or we go pirate.

Although I won't pick up one of the many pirate copies available today, I'd have no beef against any Sony user outside the UK and US who does out of sheer frustration. This is a total nonsense and doesn't deter piracy and breach of copyright and publishing rights -- it actively encourages it!

There is obviously no publisher-imposed geographical restriction because I can already buy the treebook at point-of-sale ... IN FRANCE! It's just another case of imposition by stores that can't be bothered to put their books in order.

Yours. Very Angry of Menton (Mrs)

10-26-2010, 10:00 AM	#40
neilmarr neilmarr Posts: 7,215 Karma: 6000059 Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Monaco-Menton, France Device: sony	IT GETS WORSE FOR SONY USERS IN EUROPE! As I mentioned earlier, the Sony store is not an option outside the USA, so users are/were directed to Waterstones or Barnes & Noble. That's all, folks. We now know that outside the UK and Eire, Waterstones is off limits to other Europeans as of last week. An hour ago, I tried to buy Life by Keith Richards at Barnes & Noble. Guess what ... we detect that your account is not registered in the UK or Eire and this ebook is not available to you for download. So is B&N also off limits to continental Europe, too? In that case, it means that Sony users like me have nowhere to go for big-sellers now unless we strip DRM from an Amazon download (which I can't be arsed to do), and that's probably georestricted on this title, too -- or we go pirate. Although I won't pick up one of the many pirate copies available today, I'd have no beef against any Sony user outside the UK and US who does out of sheer frustration. This is a total nonsense and doesn't deter piracy and breach of copyright and publishing rights -- it actively encourages it! There is obviously no publisher-imposed geographical restriction because I can already buy the treebook at point-of-sale ... IN FRANCE! It's just another case of imposition by stores that can't be bothered to put their books in order. Yours. Very Angry of Menton (Mrs) Last edited by neilmarr; 10-26-2010 at 10:03 AM. Reason: typos triped in fury