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Originally Posted by sabredog
Cutting prices is a good start.
But making ebooks more accessible by doing away with geo restrictions and DRM would go a long way to eliminating casual piracy by those who are quite happy to purchase an ebook title, but cannot due to geo restrictions and non availability of that DRM'ed ebook in the format suitable for their ereader.
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Well, you do have a point. The fact that a book is geo-restricted in not exactly equal to attempting to illegally import cocaine or rhino horn or even child pornography. You are blocking someone from attempting to purchase an otherwise legal object. There is no way for a person to acquire it legally but they could acquire the pbook - can you get much crazier than that. Transferring electrons is improper but actual book is not. Folks wonder about the sanity of certain laws and this is definitely one of them. Since they cannot possibly acquire a legal product in a legal fashion could drive some to go to the dark side.