But non-US/Canadian residents CAN’T get one of these cards. I’ve searched online forums who tell me to get a PayPal debit/credit MasterCard and then I can buy from Amazon with that as it’s registered in the US. Oh yes, I’ve been through it all trying to figure out how I can buy music (and please don’t tell me to use iTunes…).
So why can’t I purchase MP3s from the 20 million songs in the Amazon MP3 store? Because I don’t live in the US, because my IP address is not from the US, because I don’t have a US debit or credit card, because Amazon doesn’t take PayPal, because even if I go through a (legal) US VPN Amazon still knows that I’m Australian when I log in (even though one of my registered addresses with Amazon is in the US), and because PayPal doesn’t offer their own branded credit or debit cards to non-US residents. illegally - there are just SO many barriers to doing it legally. And I’m angry and frustrated and I now have a much better understanding of why people download music etc. I have spent many hours in the past 24 hours trying to figure out a way to buy some stuff from the Amazon MP3 store.
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