Wouldn't a VPN connection be able to sort out any sort of geo restrictions.
EG if you registered for an Amazon account in Singapore with a SG credit card and you're now in Thailand, connecting to Amazon via a Singapore VPN server would make Amazon think that you're connecting from home base.
the example should be the other way round, where thailand is
closed territory (where amazon honors the purchase) and sg is
open territory (where amazon does not honor the purchase). a vpn tunnel may hide the "open territory" sg source IP address, but depending on other apps that are active, for example apps that derive location based on metadata from wi-fi access point and gps and inadvertently forward metadata inside tunnel, policing software with correlation capabilities on the server end may inadvertently deduce your true location.
the beef is mainly with publishers and their archaic method of doing
drm. both amazon and google rely on onix metadata supplied by publishers to separate
closed territories from
open territories. including kobo, they cannot modify the metadata but simply comply with it. complying with it in their brute force algorithms may cause, except for kobo because kobo unlike amazon and google does not "un-download", all these cases of prior purchases being removed from buyers' devices simply because they cross into "open territories". that's inexcusable. at least, amazon and google should honor those prior purchases and leave them intact on the device even though device passes thru' "open territories".
that said, it's worth a test with the vpn. over a short time, however, i think other geo-based metadata on other apps will inadvertently sniff your device's actual location out.
