My Latest Rant about Microsoft et al

I have a U.S.-registered Xbox Live account and I registered my console with a U.S. address.  The trouble is I live overseas, and because of the content licensing rules, I can't download anything but free demos and the Xbox minute.  

I don't buy much downloadable content.  I would like to have the option, like the other day when I loaded up on MS points thinking I was going to get the Dark Corners DLC for GoW2, only to be stymied.  I I sent the fine folks at MS an e-mail explaining the above, and they sent me the canned answer that some content is not available in certain regions.  Well, no shit.  That's why wrote, thinking I might get something more.  (And it's not just MS, it's Hulu, Netflix and a couple of others.) Apple, on the other, just uses your credit card billing address, and I can download all I want from the iTunes store. But iTunes doesn't sell DLC for Xbox 360 games. And if it were only movies and music I wanted, and I wanted to be dishonest, I could just pirate it all. 

So now I'm stuck.  A VPN would work, but it's a monthly fee and probably the cost of a new router, plus the time and effort to set the router up, and I already know the disaster that will be.  I have never yet been able to configure something in less than an entire weekend, and I bet setting up a VPN router might be bad enough that I should just take off work for a week for all the time I'll spend talking to tech support and searching the internet for whatever unique problem that pops up. And in my mind, it's not worth all that.  

If anybody has an better ideas, I'm listening.