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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
This, I think, is the fatal disconnect that spawns piracy in the first place: People who believe the products of creators are automatically theirs by right, and that they have the right to obtain that property by any means possible, legal or otherwise.
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For people who are refused a sale because they live in the wrong country the "otherwise" would only come into play after they have exhausted all "legal" options. At least for the first time they hit that barrier. After they find out how easy it is to get around that barrier without having to pay anything to read the book a new "pirate" is born.
I don't really see how this transfers into the real world, because in the real world those barriers don't exist. There has always been mail order companies that will post you a book regardless of where you live. So there was no reason to look for alternative ways of reading it.