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In fairness, I would say that this is an issue with money/banking/credit cards and the various regulatory frameworks in this area. It is remarkably difficult t
by netcan 11y ago
In fairness, I would say that this is an issue with money/banking/credit cards and the various regulatory frameworks in this area.
It is remarkably difficult to just trade money in exchange for goods and services online. Between fraud, transaction costs, anti-"money laundering" requirements and general complexity the systems that actually exist are just not very good. If you fall outside the realm of a simple money-in-exchange-for-stuff paradigm, you are screwed.
Actual online retailers interfacing with customers need to make this mess as invisible as possible, but they are working with crappy inputs.
I increasingly suspect that the banking industry is the biggest economic bottleneck in advanced economies.
- yc1010 11y agoActually in this case I had a positive USD credit/balance on amazon.com account due to giftcards I bought with bitcoin via gyft.com, same with amazon.co.uk with giftcard bought via giftoff.com using Bitcoin again. 3-4 year old amazon account with long history of purchases going into 6 digits, no chargebacks (not possible obviously) and my Irish debit card also on file with them. The risk of fraud/charback to Amazon (either US or UK branch) was exactly zero with me.
- toyg 11y ago> this is an issue with money/banking/credit cards and the various regulatory frameworks in this area No, this is an issue with streams of bits being considered goods that have to be traded differently depending on the region, and that responsibility lies entirely with music distributors. If there was a single global license for selling a given piece of music, it wouldn't matter what you're buying, how you're buying it or where from.
- tjr 11y agoCould be a territorial copyright issue. Mechanical license rights, in my experience, aren't global.