Thread: Do you pirate books and why?
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Old 02-05-2012, 05:58 PM   #259
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Originally Posted by ProfCrash View Post
If that is the case then why is it so many folks from outside the US are posting that they are using torrents instead of breaking the geo restrictions? The books are available, it is easy to do, it is free to do, and any one on this site can find out how to do it. So why are people pirating when there is an easy, free, well documented method of getting around them?
Torrenting can be a lot easier than getting around geo restrictions. Torrenting works the same everywhere; each site may have different geo restrictions settings--some use IP addresses, some demand a credit card with a US address, require both. Some may require a different kind of verification.

Also, some publishers & bookstores insist that evading the geo restrictions is illegal. If one is going to break the law anyway, why bother leaving the paper trail of a trackable ID? Why not just pirate the book, if the only way to get it is to be a criminal?
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