If an author or publisher wants to do the geo-restriction thing, that's their right.
However, it is also my right to shop where ever I want to. I have no contract with the publisher.
If the seller is uninterested in putting in sufficient effort to determine that, according to their contract with the publisher, I'm ineligible to buy the ebook from them, then that's their problem.
The publishers could have resolved this issue, and the piracy issue, a long time ago by requiring a physical token per ebook, they decided not to pursue this.
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