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Originally Posted by darryl
However, the context is that of impoverished people in undeveloped and developing nations, who are relied upon by some to justify geographic restrictions. My point is that these people are not in fact catered for by Publishers with prices low enough for them to afford. Publishers in fact appear only to cater for the more affluent middle classes in these countries. If the truly impoverished in these nations wish to read they have little option but piracy. For you to class these people as dishonest and not to be trusted is certainly not indefensible, but in the context is probably neither appropriate nor relevant.
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Reading has always been a "middle class" activity. People who are working 16h a day to earn $2 on which to feed their family probably have neither the leisure time nor the money to be able to buy books, and neither are they likely to own an ebook reader or a smartphone on which to read the books that you suggest they are pirating.