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Originally Posted by HarryT
Possibly your VPN doesn't work as well as you think, because it certainly appears as if Amazon knows you're in Australia.
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I am not currently in Australia, I am Australian based but travel a lot. I was living in New York when I set my account with Amazon up. Are you suggesting that they check immigration for customer movements? If anything they might think that I am in Quebec as I had a few things from Amazon delivered there last year. Normally I have them delivered to LA and have a relative resend them to wherever I happen to be.
My understanding with regard to amazon is that if you have a US delivery address and a US credit card, they don't have any further interest in you. There are a number of small businesses set up purely to enable Australians to buy in the US without being penalised cost wise. They arrange a local bank account - debit card - for you and then buy and ship on your behalf. They advertise in various Australian computer and technology magazines.
Regardless of Amazon's maneuvering, the issue is that shorter copyright is not going to make much real difference to people in the US. The Gutenberg Project will send you 1984 and a few thousand other similar books and leave it up to you decide whether you are legally entitled to them. They just charge shipping for a few DVDs. Would you like to argue about that now?