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Originally Posted by HarryT
Realistically, it could only be enforced for those companies with a legal French "presence".
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Isn't there an Amazon.fr? Looks like they're incorporated in Luxembourg, though.
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French law has no juresdiction over companies based elsewhere.
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So one would think. Well, the French have certainly tried in the past [1], though. I remember some brouhaha a few years back over the sale of some Nazi memorabilia (on ebay, I think?) that was perfectly legal in the US, but apparently not France. I think they made them comply in the end by removing those items, voluntarily or not.
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There's certainly nothing to stop French buyers buying discounted books from British book shops, for example.
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They are not worried about English books, I think. And I don't see British shops stocking up on French books all of a sudden. If I had to point to a largish secondary source for French ebooks my money'd be on Canada.
[1] Actually, who hasn't? Anybody remember the
Helms-Burton Act?