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Originally Posted by issybird
I agree that the owner sets the conditions and frequently I do just buy the pbook. However, I don't think that circumvention and piracy are moral equivalents.
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I didn't say they were *morally* equivalent.
Just that they reside on the same functional gradient.
There is a difference but it isn't as big as many seem to think.
In piracy you simply take the book and nobody in the chain gets anything.
In out-of-region purchases you give money to the author and publisher and retailer that paid for the rights to the region you buy from. The publisher and retailer that paid for the rights to the region you reside in get nothing. From *their* point of view out-of-region buying and piracy are functionally the same. In both cases they get nothing for their investment.
If enough people do it, the incentive to invest in book licensing goes away. Local editions go away. And maybe the publisher goes away, too.
Morality is not the issue. Economics is.
It's all a matter of what you're comfortable with.