Quote:
Originally Posted by tompe
You are on purpose buying/taking something that the distributor is not allowed to give you. Seems to me to be copyright infringement and the same as downloading from a torrent site.
|
The seller has made a contract to not knowingly sell outside their territory, This contract does not affect the buyer at all unless the seller makes it explicit that they don't want to sell you the book. The ones I have seen say they are unable to sell you the book.
If there is a big disclaimer that you must agree to stating that you live in a certain geographical area prior to buying the book, then you are possibly committing fraud by agreeing to it.
It is like buying liquor for a minor. The only crime committed is when you give the liquor to the minor. Even if the intent is illegal, which is not the case in buying geographical restricted books, the buying itself is not a crime unless buyer and seller are in collusion.
It is not even vaguely like piracy. You are buying a product, not making an illegal copy. The publisher gets paid his asking price for the copy you bought. The fact that the publisher would get paid more if you bought it elsewhere has no bearing or discount stores, sales flyers etc. would not exist.
I buy items from other countries often. Mostly for availability, sometimes for price. More and more I am able to do it easily, but some sellers do not ship to my country. I can sometimes call up the seller and make a deal to pay for their trouble or have it shipped to a relative and forwarded.
I can also get a relative or acquaintance to buy me the book and give it as a gift. But it seems that I cannot buy the book and give it as a gift to someone else even if they live within the restricted area?
And for people who live in countries that have very high book prices, poor libraries, because that is the way things are. Do you condone price gouging just because they have always done it?
I could understand your indignation if pricing was similar for similar products and a person just had to go to the correct website but this is not the case.
And very few venders are unwillingly tricked these days. Other than checking your IP address they do little or nothing to make sure you actually live there.