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Originally Posted by kennyc
Well it's not. You said that the problem was due to DRM and geo restrictions.
Then you said something else.
You were wrong. The seller has the right to put drm on or restrict who they sell to. That gives no one the right to steal from them.
End of story.
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The seller has the right to not sell it, to put whatever restrictions they want on it and to price it however they want. They have the right to not care about customer satisfaction. No argument from me. If they enforce those rights then they have nobody to blame but themselves for lost sales.
If they don't make it available, if they price it too high, if they put too many restrictions on it then some people won't buy it. If the consumer is not satisfied with the purchase they are less likely to buy it the next time. If people don't buy it doesn't matter to me what they do beyond that point, you didn't come to agreement and you won't get their money.
I don't know why it matters so much to you what moral decision they made. Why does it matter if they bought something else, if they borrowed the book from the library, if they borrowed a paper copy from a friend or they download a copy from the internet. People are going to make moral decisions that you or I don't agree with.
You might not like that they have the option of just taking it but that's the new reality and it's not going to change. There are things you can do something about and there are thing you can't. What sabredog was arguing was the publishers should worry about the things they can change and not the things they can't. It's not the publishers fault that "piracy" exists but they can make decisions that minimize the impact.