suxors...

how'd you figure the geofilter is applied? by credit card src and tracing the money that way? or is it straight geoip lookups when buying the gift card?

it wont make sense to do it on gift card purchase, since someone out of US can buy a US citizen a card, and they should be able to use it..

i thought it was based on non-US shipping addresses, but removing those hasnt helped (my caesars palace address remains).

dont think its geolocation on webtraffic, cause proxies will easily kill them..

i suspect its missing the magic of a US credit card..

now.. if only i had one of those... :>

Next time you are in the US or if you have any US friends willing to help out pick up a prepaid Visa or Mastercard. Most will allow you to set you billing address for AVS as well as choose a CVV2 or CVC2 code. The Simon Malls Visa gift card comes highly recommended:

http://www.simon.com/giftcard/

*Simon gift cards cannot be reloaded. You may prefer a card to which you can add funds.

hmmm, i might know someone with one of those :>

are you using a stateside ip proxy ?

pair, panix, and theworld.com aka Software Tool Die all provide shell unix accounts. ssh tunnel should do it.

not sure why i am saying this as the Kindle drm and business model feels monopolistic to me.

bill

That is so typical. This type of stupid corporate policy is why there are so many kindle hacks out there. Check Google, seems you can read almost anything on a kindle with the right software.