Hi all.
I've looked high and low on the internet for an answer and either something funky is going on in my account or I missed a class at VPN night school.
So I'm in O! Canada, and here our gestapoesque CRTC (FCC equivalent) doesn't like DRM-free music download, meaning we don't have access to Amazon MP3 store. Long story short I got a US based Credit Card, a US address in NY, and it still won't let me buy anything saying I'm outside the US. So I figured "IP localizing", and I took the Proxy route. No dice, and besides they have their own downloader app and all. So looking online still I saw one or two posts about VPN. Figured I'd give it a shot. Got Hotspot Shield for Mac, works like a charm and my IP is registered somewhere near L.A.
Still, they won't let me download squat! But how the hell does the dowloader app, or the website for that matter, know I'm behind a VPN and not in the US??? I've cleared all cookies, logged out, back in, changed browsers, everything I could think about and still nothing.
Anyone has had success with getting MP3s from Az outside the US? Or, at least, what did I miss here about VPN that would leak my real location??
Thanks
ts