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Originally Posted by shalym
This is from Amazon UK's terms of service:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/help/cust...deId=201422760
I would say that downloading a movie to a device so that you can have access to it outside of the territory it was purchased in counts as circumventing territorial restrictions. |
Well, that would depend very much as to where one is when outside of those territorial restrictions.
While they may have a technical case of breach of contract I suspect that in countries, such as my own, where the law specifically does not give protection to copyright holders restricting mere access to the viewing of such media, a civil case of breach of contract would likely not progress very far at all. That especially in countries which have strong consumer rights legislation which fundamentally does not support sellers in their contracting outside of the normal legal consumer rights of the purchaser.
To forestall any case of confusion, here, while copyright holders have legal protections of their rights the copyright holder has to pursue a civil case in the event those rights are breached; unlike in the USA, for example, where (I am told?) breaches of copyright of the likes of movies is a federal offense.