Thread: Do you pirate books and why?
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Old 02-06-2012, 05:17 PM   #293
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Originally Posted by ProfCrash View Post

The reason you cannot buy the US or UK version of the e-book is because of a law in the US that treats electronic media different then physical media. This is the problem of geo restrictions. The EU and the US (I imagine other areas of the world as well) have laws on the books that prevent the sale of electronic media across borders.
So how do you explain Smashwords and other similar sites?
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