[DawnFalcon]

Actually, tax is an interesting issue. It can be argued that the tax is due on the importer, which if the transaction location is your location...the importer is actually the *seller*. However, that gets turned around again by site terms and agreements, which tend to state you'll pay any relevant tax.

The thing is, copyright law effectively assigns the right to make legal copies, any other copies being unauthorised - with certain exceptions for say transitory copying and the blind and so on. For a copy to be legal, you need to have acquired it in a fully legal fashion. If you bypass georestrictions, then you are bypassing a measure intended to restrict who it legally available to, and hence the copy's unliscenced. (Due to UK computing law, there's also a potential criminal offence there for just that, too - it's pretty broad ranging on what "unauthorised access" really means - it's *probably* non-prosecutable, but that's not been tested!).

The store's legality, well, it probably says they have to take "reasonable measures", which means if you've bypassed those measures, no foul to them. If they did nothing, or say just put a text warning up? Probably not sufficient.

Don't look at me, I didn't write the laws!