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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
However, I don't see that a single family's purchase Thai with US money, and then shipping them to the US, is going to destroy the publisher's profit margin
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Have a look at a software EULA sometime and look at the number of things you can do that could "irreparably damage" the company without meaningfully affecting its profit margins. It doesn't matter that you do or don't do; the company wants to be able to sue for unlimited damages.
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Originally Posted by holymadness
No, but it does establish a unique opportunity for (large-scale) arbitrage. And if sufficient individuals undermine local prices by importing and cheaply reselling the same goods from elsewhere, there will eventually be an impact on the publisher.
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The whole case also proves just how greedy the textbook companies are. Instead of making them available to everyone at Thai prices (which are probably closer to the "cost of manufacture" prices that you're supposed to get in a "free market," ), they sue to keep gouging US students.