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More US centric discrimination: Amazon.com MP3 download

This kind of things pisses me up so much. What's your problem Amazon? My money is not good enough for you? I call it discrimination.

Oh yeah, also something else. Could you tell me that *before* you make me install your downloader? Kthxbai.

US centric discrimination

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Print | posted on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 7:01 PM

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# re: More US centric discrimination: Amazon.com MP3 download

left by Steve Clements at 4/29/2008 9:14 PM Gravatar
I totally agree, MS do the same with Zune marketplace.

# re: More US centric discrimination: Amazon.com MP3 download

left by Jeremiah Morrill at 4/30/2008 12:05 AM Gravatar
Hmmph...

Maybe they want you to pirate the music instead? =X

-Jer

# re: More US centric discrimination: Amazon.com MP3 download

left by commenter at 4/30/2008 12:24 AM Gravatar
I blame George W Bush.

# re: More US centric discrimination: Amazon.com MP3 download

left by Blogus Maximus at 4/30/2008 5:07 AM Gravatar
Come on Laurent, seriously... You don't really think it has anything to do with your currency, do you?

It's all about licensing rights.

Now, the downloader thing is pretty bogus. They definitely should have warned you first on that one.

# re: More US centric discrimination: Amazon.com MP3 download

left by Laurent at 4/30/2008 8:09 AM Gravatar
@Chris Yeah I am not *that* stupid :) Note however that eventually, licensing rights amount to money, and telling me they don't want to sell me licensing rights just because my IP is not located in the US is discrimination, period.

The funny thing with all that is that IP based discrimination is so plain idiotic. I can fake my IP, I can use VPN, I have just so many alternatives, but honestly, if a firm is bad enough to a) listen to lawyers b) use this kind of technlogical anti-solution, they just don't deserve my money.

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Laurent
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