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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Facing unlimited fines, even if somebody spoofs the IP address, she may end up closing the ebook store. So everybody loses, globally.
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Indeed, and it's not just deliberate spoofing of the IP address which can cause these issues - IP addresses are a very unreliable means of determining location. For example, at one point I worked in a UK office of a multinational company whose connection to the public internet for all its European operations was in Amsterdam. Any sites I went to assumed I was in the Netherlands (e.g. I'd get the non-UK variant of the BBC website).
I see no way a small business like a minor self-published author could or should be expected to deal with that sort of complexity.
/JB