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Originally Posted by tompe
I do not think so. It feels a bit immoral to me. And since you were going to buy the book it is the author that get less money. In the case when people download without paying anything books they would not have bought nobody looses any money. So comparing these two case circumventing geographical restrictions feels to me to be worse.
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Not that old hat again.
We already have established that the author not necessarily gets less money for US sales --- depends on the contract. Everybody is willing to sell at that given price to "US eligible" buyers. If they are trying to rip people off on the basis of national origin, well, then it is they who are wrong.
So let us ask, authors, publishers, and sellers who they prefer --- some illegal downloader or a real buyer??? I wouldn't be so sure anyone but the illegal downloader would feel that circumventing geographic restrictions is worse. Everybody would rather lose a few extra bucks than lose the whole amount and get nothing. I can't imagine any author embracing somebody who downloads a book for free over somebody who pays the price that the author is actually willing to sell at.
In the end if they really wanted to stop circumventing regional restrictions they could do so. But nobody is really interested in that, so they allow it and even make it very easy to do so. A few take it very seriously, why don't the others?