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Originally Posted by FF2
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.
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What geo-restriction has done is cause people to lose access to legally purchased eBooks. They go back to the site where they purchased the eBooks and find they cannot download them any longer. They copies they have may be now useless as they need to redownload to update the DRM.
So what do they do? They turn to the net to find them and along the way, find other goodies they can get for free. So they do because they are pissed off at the publishers for imposing these restrictions that take away their legally purchased content. So in retaliation, they take from the publishers. Who gets hit in the crossfire? The authors. But the authors don't seem to care. If they did, the authors would be all over the publishers to get rid of geo-restrictions and agency pricing.
Then the is the MPAA that sells these combo pack DVDs. They include an electronic copy of the movie that can be watched on your computer or tablet. But the problem is that the DRM expires and if you buy these combo packs after the expiration date, you can't use the digital copy. But you still pay for it. So the customers go to the net to find it. They also find other movies there too for free and get them as well.
So really, these whining b*st*rds really only have themselves to blame. They scream foul when it is them that caused this mess in the first place.