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Originally Posted by tompe
There are a lot of very logical reasons for that. For example transport cost and custom for physical goods.
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So, it's the truckers' unions that are insisting on geo-restrictions, so they can get a cut of the sales?
I'm not following the logic here. If it were a matter of "our nation needs the additional income caused by ancillary charges that occur in an international sale," they could just add a few dollars (pounds, whatever) to each sale, to be distributed to some national tax office.
The issue isn't even "you can't buy some ebooks from some locations." It's that publishers are refusing to say why, or how that could change--they vaguely point to "copyright law" but don't say which part of it indicates "when you buy a digital product, your location is assumed to be the location of your bank's home office." Perhaps that's because
it's not part of the law--it's a business decision publishers made with each other, a matter of private contracts, not law.
There is no bit of copyright law, in any nation, that says where a digital purchase takes place.