Sometimes Amazon will pop up a note saying that this item is available for sale in the US and Canada only.
For physical products you'll only ever see that on software and even then the "marketplace" part of Amazon isn't so restricted. Besides, this is done only so they can charge higher prices in Europe - the actual product is available here, just not from that source.
You may be right about Harry Potter, but that's an exception to just about every publishing rule. Amazon have been internationally supplying books, videos, DVDs etc. that are supposedly only available in the US since the site began. It's one of the ways they got so big.
My point is not about legalities but about the reality of the situation. Whatever the licensing says, I can as a consumer legally obtain music, film, physical books and software that is published in the USA. Just not TV shows - and like you, I obtain on bittorrent those shows not available to me here - and, apparently, audiobooks. I am willing, even eager to spend money on these things and it seems nonsensical to me that I'm prevented from doing so.
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Sometimes Amazon will pop up a note saying that this item is available for sale in the US and Canada only.
For physical products you'll only ever see that on software and even then the "marketplace" part of Amazon isn't so restricted. Besides, this is done only so they can charge higher prices in Europe - the actual product is available here, just not from that source.
You may be right about Harry Potter, but that's an exception to just about every publishing rule. Amazon have been internationally supplying books, videos, DVDs etc. that are supposedly only available in the US since the site began. It's one of the ways they got so big.
My point is not about legalities but about the reality of the situation. Whatever the licensing says, I can as a consumer legally obtain music, film, physical books and software that is published in the USA. Just not TV shows - and like you, I obtain on bittorrent those shows not available to me here - and, apparently, audiobooks. I am willing, even eager to spend money on these things and it seems nonsensical to me that I'm prevented from doing so.