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Old 11-27-2017, 05:36 PM   #256
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer View Post
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.
Question, do you remove DRM? Is it legal where you do it? If the answer is you do remove DRM and it is not legal, then why is it an issue then to buy an eBook from another country? The thing is, the author gets paid. Now we could not get past geo-restriction and go out on the net and try to find the eBook and the author then gets nothing because if it's found or not, the author isn't getting a sale.
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