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by johnchristopher 1805 days ago
> The fact that e.g. Netflix offers different movies for every country is something that honestly does not make any sense yet everyone accepts it.

It does make sense when you know distributors still have to strike deals with cable TV operators.

> When I got my first Kindle 12 years ago my Amazon account was registered with my local European address so the books available in store were all complete trash romance pulp novels. Once I simply changed my home address to some random location in New York I suddenly had access to hundreds of thousands more titles. The Internet never delivered on its promise.

At least it did since you have access to the books you want.