[Dylanlacey]

So there are often strategies put in place to ensure that an Australian customer can't purchase at the US price, on the basis that... well... fuck you we want your money that's why.

I would agree with your point if digital content producers didn't use geocoding to prevent me from accessing their US store o block non-US credit cards. The problem is not that this price is arbitrary, but that it's not. It's a deliberate, nasty piece of geographical discrimination.