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Comment by Hamuko | Hacker News Reader

Sometimes you can't even buy (or rent) the content because of georestrictions. At least I often encounter TV shows and movies that are available in some US streaming service, but are not available in our version of the same service, or the entire service is not available.

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I mean, you can justify it any way you like - there's no referee, no judge, no one to stop you. I just don't bother with the justifications myself; it is what it is.

There's an easy solution if you want the clear conscience of paying creators but the freedom of actually controlling the content you paid for. Buy, then pirate. Don't even bother with ever accessing your crippled purchase.

You can purchase abroad and ship to your country. Amazon for example has country local stuff. Use the .xy for whichever country you want to search in (.com for US, .de for Germany, etc) and see if they have what you want.

They may also ship to you internationally.

If Amazon.differentcc sells something that Amazon.yourcc doesn't why wouldn't Amazon the global org set you up with an international sale. Surely that would make them lots of €¥$£ more?

The problem with Amazon is that my nearest Amazon, and the one that actually reliably ships to me, is Amazon.de. And the media on Amazon.de is usually German media, if there is even any media available. And I'm not German.

Just looking at a couple of shows that I watched a year ago, I couldn't actually find any of them on Amazon.de. And actually, only found one on Amazon.com, where it was unavailable. Also, the Chinese version for some reason?

I usually get the DVDs in that case, if possible. Some of the newest content isn’t available on DVD but most of the older stuff is.

If you're buying secondhand DVD's, and I don't see how you aren't because who's still producing DVD's (or even, who's producing Blurays for older content), then you're on the same level as people who pirate from the eyes of publishers and media conglomerates. You might feel better about yourself, but it's a quirk of history that they haven't been able to make secondhand sales illegal.

You'd be surprised, lots of content is still available as new on places like Amazon, especially if you broaden to outside the US.

Actually, you're entirely right. I don't know why I thought they stopped printing DVDs for new releases.

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