[Darkitow]

The legallity of that is a bit laughable considering the fact that the restriction is based on the ground you're stepping in. I don't mean that llaw is something to laugh at, but we're in front of a very simple case of something that should be revised and adapted to new times. Internet is something relatively old already, they had time to adapt.

I understand all the copyright issues, but the fact is that we're not forbidden to buy the books for any specific reason inherent of ourselves, like not having the US nationality or not being part of a specific "club" designed to grant the "privilege" of buying those books, we're forbidden to buy them because we're standing in a different country at the moment.

It's true that we cheat, but the point is that the cheat we do is because of a very retarded and stupid reason based on a selfish conservative way to see the market. I mean, I'm spanish from the south of the country. I live near Gibraltar, which is UK territory. I can't buy some UK website books because I'm spanish (no, it's because I'm in spain), but if I take my bike and I go to Gibraltar, something that for me doesn't cost to much, technically I'm "in the UK" so I can purchase those books.

Now take the opposite example: you're american and you decide to do a trip of 2 weeks to France (for example). You have your Kindle registered in an US address, so you CAN buy US books, but technically you're going against the rules too, you're NOT in the States.

Third example: It's my birthday. I have an US friend who wants to buy me an eBook to my Kindle because he knows I'm a huge book fan, but he can't do because several reasons: 1) Even if he sends me a gift card, I couldn't buy the book, 2) due to DRM issues he can't buy it and then send it to me unless we use more "illegal" resources to take off the DRM, 3) if I temporally register that Kindle to his account and then back, that's not too "legal" either according to Amazon. BUT of course he can buy the paperbook and send it by mail.

I don't know how to express how really ridiculous the situations appear to my eyes. As I said, Internet is not part of a country. Internet would be more of a country itself. It would make much more sense to have editorials specifically for eBooks based on languages, or force any editorial that buys the rights to make a digital version of its books to open the online market to everybody and suck it up.

Seriously, when I think about this I can't help but think about a parallelism. It's like if we still had laws for traffic and driving designed for donkeys and horses despite driving already Ferraris, and instead of adapting the law and market to cars, they kept punishing cars for going over 20 kms/h because they're going faster than a donkey.