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Or any active content! Why would Amazon sell apps in only North America?!

• chris_wot 13y ago
  It's called geoblocking. The Australian Senate held hearings into it. Fun fact: I was looking to buy Cowboy Bebop and Star Trek: The Next Generation on iTunes. Not available, but definitely available in the U.S. App Store.
  • mmagin 13y ago
    Even before streaming, the media publishing industries have been into segmenting the world into different markets for the same product: For example: books separately published in the US and the UK, DVDs and Blu-Ray disks with region codes that prevent playing on the other region players (providing they're players which obey this flag.)
    • chris_wot 13y ago
      Time to disrupt these arseholes.
  • curiousdannii 13y ago
    But unlike most other media there's no other way to purchase them. I can't buy DVDs of Kindle active content, I can't get it off ebay. I guess they mustn't consider the international market worth the trouble of solving whatever legal issue is stopping them from selling them to other countries.