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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
I don't think you'll find any legitimate vendors who will knowingly ignore/flaunt geographic restrictions to sell you ebooks that they have no right to sell you. Geo-restrictions are not something imposed by the retailers/vendors and have nothing to do with their sanity or their "strictness." I'm sure they'd love to sell you a copy if they were allowed. It's the rights-holders—not the vendors—who authorize/contract for the various distribution rights in other countries.
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Are you sure about that? My impression was that many (most?) geo-restrictions were due to overly-conservative readings of dead-tree era (and often pre-internet) licensing terms, terms that quite simply don't cover the modern environment, so therefore neither explicitly forbid, nor explicitly permit, direct sales to customers who are outside the retailer's immediate geographic area.