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Originally Posted by HansTWN
That may be true if you live in Singapore and Saudi Arabia or one of those other places with stringent censorship rules. Or for the tax hungry European countries. But then you would be guilty of smuggling even when you bought it while living in the US and then brought it in on your computer or reader when you moved there. In fact, you would even be guilty of smuggling if there were no regional restrictions from the US side for buying there! But for most countries, they couldn't care less.
Besides, following your train of thought, wouldn't you be guilty of smuggling stolen goods for downloading a pirated file?
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Sorry Hans, obviously the tongue firmly in cheek did not translate in what I wrote... I get a little fed up with this constant thread of it being a criminal act to by pass ridiculous geographical restrictions on purchasing a product I can legally purchase here in a different format.