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Originally Posted by braver
As I explained earlier, Amazon has to model a tourist visiting UK and buying a book there. All you have to do is change your location. You can do it back and forth. This is a gift by Amazon to the people of the world, so they could buy whatever they want -- except you have to declare you're at a different place. Amazon only profits from it, and there's no real way to check this, except using 3G for geolocation, which you must authorize if it even were ever attempted.
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Amazon dosn't "have" to do anything. You're talking about the US-only Kindle, which cannot access wireless networks outside the US (in the UK, it litterally cannot - the wireless is incompatible).
This is not a "gift" in any sense of word, it's a major bug which makes a absolute mockery of the rights of the companies it's supposedly upholding.
And why would you need to "authorise" geolocation? No such requirement exists. Indeed, it's perfectly arguable that you don't even need to mention it in the end-user agreement. More, geolocation would again be utterly pointless since the US-only Kindle cannot, again, access wireless services outside the USA!
Now, if you were talking about the international Kindle, then there is a serious disconnect there between the statements made by Amazon and what you're describing... (They've clearly stated there's a "base country" set...)