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Originally Posted by fearindex
...Personally I'd be a little hesitant to use not-my-country Amazon for digital downloads though. I use Amazon.com "international" account with the country set to my real country of residence. The licensing of books is often done region by region (even from Amazon.com sometimes they refuse to sell some book to international markets because of this) and if they notice someone bypassing those restrictions with whatever means, they might feel the pressure of the publishers to interfere...
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I'd have to check Amazon's general business terms.
But if I remember correctly, the phrase was something like "address has to be valid".
Meaning: When Amazon did send me a few emails about 3 years ago ("did you move recently?"), I told them:
My main residency still is the German one. But I'm frequently on business trips, often for months. Then the US or UK become my formal residencies. And that's even kind of true. The addresses I gave for the US and the UK had been the offices of my (back then) employer.
So, actually I don't see, how I could have broken any laws or even business terms.
The addresses are (have been) valid. I don't think, the business terms insisted on me living there permanently, only for the time being.
So I'd make sure of 2 things:
a.) The address has to be valid.
b.) I even could prove some relation to that address. Rumor has it, never had been so many residents living in the FBI headquarters, the WhiteHouse and whatever addresses in the US you can Google. I wouldn't overdo it, just use the address of a relative or something like that.
BTW:
I guess, the policy is "no harm, no foul".
Same for the infamous gift cards in iTunes. I buy most of my movies and TV shows from iTunes in the US: Faster to the market, in the original English version and even a bit cheaper.
Apple easily could insist on a US credit card as a backup, instead of solely allowing for gift cards. This still would be solvable, for example by using virtual or pre-paid cards. But it certainly would complicate things.
But there's actually no harm done. Apple and the TV studio have got their money. And even the German TV studios didn't loose any business. I've bought the US version, not the German one, from the US.
Same with eBooks.
I only buy an English eBook from Amazon US, if I can't get it in the German Amazon store: No one lost any business.