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Originally Posted by MrPLD
Strictly speaking, I think it's very simple.
1. The author/publisher has decided on what terms their work can be obtained.
2. You have no legal or moral right to that media outside of what the creators have offered.
3. If you don't like it, tough.
In short, you have no implied rights to anything anyone created outside of their stipulated terms. It's their work, their choice.
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That may be so, but as the entertainment and music industry have discovered, people will simply acquire that product elsewhere if they are denied the choice of purchasing it.
If the publishing industry actually took time to really make fundamental changes to modernise their outdated mid 20th century distribution system and as part of that remove geo restrictions, DRM and bring ebooks to a equitable pricing level then the turned away customers would return, ready to buy.
Sales would certainly be better.