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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Minor nit 1: concerns restrictions on the selling of physical books. A buyer has broken no rules (legal or moral) by asking the seller to sell them a book under that scenario (provided there is no attempt to hide/obfuscate their location)... regardless of the outcome.
Minor nit 2: the seller has made their position clear. As they should. Your daughter's workaround to the problem involved no deception, lie or law/agreement-breaking. Nor did it require the seller to violate their agreement/contract with publishers. Yay for legal and moral workarounds.
But like many other situations, comparing physical books to ebooks rarely yields relevant discussion. There is no similar workaround for buying a copyrighted, geo-restricted ebook without deception or piracy.
Like issybird, I'm not interested in policing the internet. If people are OK with lying to get what they want, then so be it. But I'm not obligated to buy their justifications/excuses/reasons for why they believe their deceptions should get a free pass from being considered immoral.
I hate geo-restrictions as much the next person. Just not enough to lie to get around them.
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The second is not entirely accurate. One simply uses the same work around as for the physical work around. Have a friend who lives in the correct location, buy the book for you.