Originally Posted By: bonzi

BTW, iTunes uses IP to determine which local version of the shop it will let you in, so I suppose that the situation with the firmware is similar. I wonder are there some kind of public proxies that could be a way around this kind of problems.

Yes, you can use TOR + Privoxy to appear to come from a US IP address.
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