That's the killer point for me in many cases - not to mention that in my neck of the woods there are lots of content that are just plain old unavailable in ANY

That's the killer point for me in many cases - not to mention that in my neck of the woods there are lots of content that are just plain old unavailable in ANY legal way (I understand that in the US it is sometimes the case with Japanese stuff, well, over here it happens with stuff from all over the world). I don't even bother to try buying music online because the muddy law behind it means it's probably still illegal even if I do buy it - because I'm buying it in the US, most likely, and consuming it in Uruguay. My father already had some legal trouble with the BSA arm because he had a legally purchased copy of Norton - but he had bought it in the US, not Uruguay.