Australians Urged To Spoof IP Addresses For Better Prices

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday October 24, 2012 @09:28PM from the won't-somebody-please-think-of-the-savings? dept.

angry tapir writes "Choice, a prominent Australian consumer advocacy group, has urged Australians to obfuscate their IP address to avoid geo-blocking and use US forwarding addresses to beat high IT prices. Australia is currently in the middle of parliamentary inquiry into the country's disproportionately high prices for technology. Choice also suggested setting up US iTunes accounts and using surrogate US addresses for forwarding packages from American stores. Choice has noted previously that Australians pay 52 per cent more for digital music downloads on iTunes compared to US users."

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Willful Misrepresentation is a Crime by Anonymous Coward · 2012-10-24 22:52 · Score: 2, Funny

Willfully misrepresenting material facts in order to obtain a financial benefit to which one would not otherwise be entitled is a fraud crime.
Re:It's not just games by Elbart · 2012-10-25 00:39 · Score: 3, Funny

The US-navy deploys those with F18s. Those aircraft-carriers are expensive.
It's The Spin by Kozar_The_Malignant · 2012-10-25 02:05 · Score: 3, Funny

Of course technology costs more down in Oz. it has to be manufactured to handle the fact that electrons spin widdershins down there.

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