Thread: What do you think about circumventing geographic restrictions?
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Old 03-02-2015, 06:03 AM   #267
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If I gave a copy of a book to someone, and they then in turn gave it to other people, uploaded it to the internet, etc, I'd feel morally responsible for that piracy, because it would be my actions which led to it. Because of this, I prefer not to take the chance. I should add that I also don't lend paper books to people because they don't look after them the way that I do. If I can't trust my friends to look after my paper books, I'm not going to trust them to look after my ebooks.
Your mistrust of people's motives (motives of your friends no less) depicts a lonely and disconnected picture of this world. How can you still interact with them if you mistrust them with something trivial as respecting your wishes not to pirate the e-book you lent to them?
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