Google tries to define a valid family. Predictable awfulness ensues

Family managers need to live in the same country as their families

I’ll bet this has as much to do with “edge case” as “pain in the ass with licenses” as many forms of media are licensed differently in different countries. What is the business logic for “movie clear for family share in USA, but not in Afghanistan” when the family is split between those countries (and obviously you would actually need to deal with as many countries as people allowed in a maximum sized family). Just as bad, how do you do the payments? Do you cut the US check for 80% of the total, and a 20% check for the Afghanistan license holder? 100% to whatever license holder the original purchase was done in, and nothing for the other? What if the purchase and share are significantly separated in time?

This sounds intensely unfun.

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