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Originally Posted by pwalker8
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.
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One difference is that you can give a physical book away or re-sell it under the doctrine of exhaustion for Canadians, right of first sale doctrine for Americans and similar legalese in most other jurisdictions. Most ebooks are licensed under restrictions which preclude transferring the license. A few years back, I asked about downloading an .acsm file and sending that file to another person so the ebook was never actually in my possession. The response was that while not technically violating copyright or license terms since the ebook was never transferred to my computer, I would (somehow) be violating the author's moral rights. I had to admire the response to my query about exactly what constituted a moral right -- Terry Pratchett would have loved it.