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Originally Posted by kennie
Sometimes the law itself is immoral. It would be one thing if our economy in the US was made up of US employees, US factories, etc. It's not. Corporations now outsource to get the cheapest labor, US employees have lost their jobs, etc. So, if Amazon outsources their helpdesk (and, yes, they do) so they don't have to pay US labor costs, why on earth should I be stuck paying the jacked up US prices if I can find a way around it? I do the same with dvds. I have a region free player and I've often bought UK dvds of UK shows and had them shipped here since they were half the cost of the price here.
Everything we buy these days was made somewhere else and I'm permitted to buy hardcopy books, media, clothing, etc. . . I can import anything I want except a simple ebook file that I'm really only going to read once? I do it and find absolutely nothing wrong with it at all.
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Yes exactly. Corporations are happy to outsource labour to the least expensive country and tell their employees that it's a global economy, sorry about your job. They then set up offshore shell companies to avoid paying their fair share of taxes. The same corporations then want to impose artificial geo-restrictions when they sell and price their products. Suddenly it's no longer a global economy.