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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
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.
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I would certainly agree with you there.
Geographic restrictions can and do prevent ebook purchasers from buying even a local authors works which is a plainly ludicrous situation.
As for DRM, I remove it because I do not want to get burned due to when the agency 5 decided 80% of the ebooks I legally purchased were off limits. Diesel, to their credit agreed with my complaint and refunded me the cost of the denied ebooks.
To get around such a ludicrous restriction, I buy an ebook in what format I can get it, remove the DRM, convert it to my ereaders format (ePUB), enjoy the book and there you go, the author has been paid as well.