Thread: What do you think about circumventing geographic restrictions?
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Old 02-26-2015, 11:19 AM   #147
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Unfortunately that too is what you believe -- and the opinion of many is, you are wrong.
He's right.
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It is all about the end result. If I keep a backup of all my ebooks, and lend someone else a copy of the ebook while scrupulously not reading it myself, it is no different than lending the ebook and deleting my copy (inexplicably, you seem to be okay with this) ... except that my capacity for redundant backup is greater.
No one is buying the book once and distributing to the masses, or even to a handful of people -- it is a loan to person I trust, done with my own personal standard of honesty that you feel is unworthy.
This is not what the law said, although I believe you're of a good faith.
By giving someone else a book, you deprive the publishers from selling his copy to that person (he is a potential customer, since he wanted to read that book), and consequently you infringed her ancillary right of distribution.

Under certain jurisdictions, it is possible (legally) to sell your copy to a third party, provided you destroyed all the copies you have. By "sell" can be understand also give away, lend, whatever action that keeps the number of owners to 1.00000 .

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No one is buying the book once and distributing to the masses, or even to a handful of people
At least the plurality of torrents with movies, CDs, and recently even PDFs and eBooks makes your assertion rather weak, so to say.
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Furthermore, Amazon grants me the right to share my library with one other person in an unconditional manner, and both of us can additionally share with anyone logged into our accounts (family ) -- is that a copyright violation? Oh wait, I don't even have to break DRM because the vendor systems enable it!
Do not confound the options you have with the law requirements.
I assume you may get once in a while a slap from your wife, or vice-versa, an action that repeated with a different person in public may get you or the other one into police custody on the spot .
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