VPN for Amazon Prime

VPN
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Hi, I am new to Germany. I am thinking of getting paid VPN to access shows in Amazon Prime that are not in the website in this country. I want to know if this is okay and please let me know if people do this here

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What do you mean by ok?
Legal? Yes.
Against TOS? Also yes.

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Is your account german? Or is it one you had already in your last place of living?

With e.g. netflix, if you physically are in another country or trick the app via an VPN, you get that countries catalogue. Amazon Prime, though, simply resteicts your “native” calalogue to the content also avaliable in the other countries catalogue. If you account is german and you VPN the US, you only get the content avaliable in both countries. Nothing only in the US one, or only in the german one.

Now, if you VPN into the country your account is from, that should give you the full catalogue of that country. But only if Prime does not recognite the VPN amd reject it

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I will not further answer, please take or leave what I write here or ask Mr. Google, or why not try and log into Amazon and pick the free trial month?!

  1. Your Amazon Account works on ALL Amazon sites in Europe and abroad. Just log-in.
  2. You can start a Prime membership in ANY country, so that you could have 5 Prime memberships at the same time.
  3. Now, case one: You have Prime in France (Amazon.fr) and you now live in Germany. You can watch over France or any other Amazon.xyz, just that the films will be from the French catalog and just in the French language in certain cases, exclusive stuff just in French, etc. You can log in from a German TV for example, over Amazon.de, with your French-Account, BUT some films will not appear (if another TV station/company has the publishing rights for Germany or parts). Nonetheless, prime TV series, which are or have not been sold for Germany, those will be watchable!! (films / series only in French language, for example, which are not on Amazon.de will appear, thanks to your French account, BUT only if NO one else acquired the license for Germany!)
  4. What changes with VPN? You will be able to access ALL the original country’s catalog, with all the films, which in Germany are not on Amazon Prime, but on other Pay-TV-channels, or even Amazons very own pay-TV channels.
  5. VPN is always your way to go with Amazon, makes the experience much better IF AND ONLY IF you understand several languages, otherwise they do not offer the films in all possible languages, but it varies, some films are offered in multi-language, some not

Again, the catalog of films (which can look in many ways, but is always a national edition) depends on where you pay for Amazon Prime. Where the account is from, does not matter. Amazon has started to ask for a local residence address, while to the summer, you were able to use ALL PRIME TRIAL MONTH + 1 EXTRA MONTH on all Amazons with VPN, which is great, if you speak 3+ languages fluently = 8 MONTHS FREE PRIME and repeat. Unfortunately, Amazon became aware of it and changed it to less free trial times and a local address is required, now :persevering_face:

If you encounter problems with VPN: log-out; leave the Amazon-Site; delete all temporary site data (cookies → tools like PrivaZer); turn on VPN; Log back in; do not allow site to track your position, of course

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Legally this is generally fine but understand that only some VPNs will work. I use NordVPN specifically because it does this when Private Internet Access did not.

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But is it commonplace here? Also thank you for your reply

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Thank you for the detailed response. I haven’t got Amazon Prime yet and am thinking of getting that here.

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What does that matter? Sure, some people do it. It’s not illegal, so just try it. Worst that’s gonna happen is that you lose your Amazon account.

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Then it will not help you to use a vpn, unless you travel and want to see the full german catalogue.

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If I had amazon account from my home country, how would I access German shows? Will I be able to watch them, just by logging into it from here?

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Think of a venn diagram. On one side you have the country where your IP is. On the other you have the country where your prime account is. You can only access content that’s in the overlapping section. Prime doesn’t work like netflix.

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how would I access German shows?

You would not.

Will I be able to watch them, just by logging into it from here?

No. That is the main point of my last two comments. If you log into a foreign AP account in germany, you would be able to see that contect from your home country that is also avaliable on german AP