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Originally Posted by ProfCrash
The American law says that your computer in Netherlands is the point of sale so that a US store cannot sell you something that is not available in the Netherlands.
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Which US law? I really do want to see the phrasing on that one.
Also, it's not the case that a US store can't sell you something not available in the Netherlands--or they couldn't sell you the physical book. However, if the publisher has licensed the Netherlands sales to someone else, then the US publisher can't sell you books in the Netherlands. Retail stores *are* allowed to distribute to places outside their nation... except that they won't do it for digital files, presumably because they fear publishers cutting off the supply.
At least, in the last several years of discussions about geo restrictions, I've yet to see the law that says "digital purchases are legally presumed to take place at the point of sale, or rather, the point of bank office of the purchaser's credit card, or perhaps at the address of the server hosting the IP address," all of which have been used to claim they are the "location" of the buyer.