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Originally Posted by Blue Tyson
Basically as far as I can see, it would be because the whingeing poms and the whingeing aussies (pretty sure the Canadians can handle it) couldn't compete with American prices, so they made up the 'if you bought electronic with a credit card while sitting in your living room you bought it in your room, but if you bought paper then you bought it where you bought it' crapola.
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IIRC it was the US states, more than anything else, that pushed for this. Not necessarily relating to ebook/geographic restrictions (that's just a by-product of the 'location of sale' definition) but in connection with the authority to tax the sale.
Might have been in connection with porn, too. I think I remember a case where a person in California? was charged with porn for viewing a site put up by a company in Delaware? hosted on a server in Tennessee? Each jurisdiction had different definitions of porn & the question was, which definition applied. I don't recall whether a sale was actually involved or not, but IIRC the site was legal under Tennessee rules & illegal under California's.
Unfortunately I don't remember the decision (and can't spend the half-hour needed to find the case) but it would fit the criteria of deciding the location of the 'transaction'.