They do look at where the actual physical computer is at the end of a purchase I believe don't they? If I want to buy a book that is restricted to being sold in the U.K. for example and I'm in the U.S. then the transaction won't go through, but if I take my netbook to England and buy it my physical computer is within the national boundaries of the U.K. and the transaction should go through. At least that's how I understand it from other posts I've read. The internet is world wide but the access points to get on the net are within national boundaries. So you access the net from say Australia, but Amazon itself isn't physically present in the country as the online store is in cyberspace. They're still trying to work out a system of laws for cyberspace I understand.
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Originally Posted by Pushka
But using that logic means that geographical restrictions for ebooks doesn't exist either, because Amazon is selling all ebooks from their store in the US. So all books should be available everywhere in the world. But we know that isn't the case, Amazon considers that it is selling specifically to a particular country.
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