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Originally Posted by Ankh
How is it illegal for him to download it from Canadian server, but it is legal to physically transfer the copies over the border (which he does when he brings them with him to USA)?
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Amazon ships books to places where they're covered by different aspects of copyright law. It sells books that are PD in the US (and therefore printed cheaply) to places where those books are still under copyright.
If it's legal for you to make the disc (and it is); it should be legal to offer to ship to pretty much anywhere in the world, under the same terms that allow Amazon to ship US editions to other countries with their own licensed versions under contract.
(I am not a lawyer. This is not legal advice.)
Why it's illegal for him to download from the Canadian server: because he's making a copy he's not authorized to make. Once he has a legally-procured disc, he can make copies for personal use (we believe; that hasn't been quite tested in court, but the RIAA cases are promising), but he has no way to *get* a legit copy from a Canadian server.
ETA: Yes, this is stupid.