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You can rent then on Amazon, iTunes or Google play


If you are an Australian, only at extortionate prices. We pay at least three times as much as Americans, and I can assure you whilst the Australian exchange rate doesn't have the purchasing dollar that the U.S. dollar does, we are only about 1.43 Australian dollars to every 1 US dollar.

At one point we were actually at about 1.2 US dollars for every 1 Australian dollar (during the GFC) and we were still charged 2-3 times the amount it cost in the U.S.! And even then the exchange rate was blamed - at which point every single Australian realized we were being utterly screwed.

Now a majority of Australians are bypassing geoblocks, and will continue to do so.


Can they even do that with the slow australian internet connection?


It's not that slow. I pulled down the multi-gigabyte Libreoffice git repository pretty quickly the other day. And I've watched certain networks streaming TV shows without any problems.




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