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Originally Posted by HarryT
But “wants” and “entitlements” boil down to questions of personal opinion, don’t they? Eg the DRM removal tools’ development was presumably prompted by a view that the purchaser of an ebook has a legitimate entitlement to be able to read it on any device of their choosing. Other people might disagree with that point of view. At the end of the day it’s a matter of opinion, not a moral absolute.
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Once again: don't be confused as to what I find immoral about geo-restriction circumvention. It is the lying component of "traveling" that I find immoral. Not the thwarting of geo-restriction itself. And I find the attempt to justify the practice to be unconvincing and pointless. For that matter, I hold no notion that I am entitled to remove DRM, nor have I attempted to convince myself that I am justified in doing so.
Lying for personal gain is one of the few things I can think that is not morally ambiguous. So yes, I think knowingly doing so is unequivocally immoral. Opinion doesn't enter into it.