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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
At least one person posited that geo-restriction actually leads to piracy, so therefore,the thwarting of geo-restrictions was "good" because authors still get paid and it prevents someone from having to turn to piracy to get what they want.
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I've read through (and contributed to) this whole argument and I still don't see what was wrong with the wolf's original supposition. Geo-restrictions
do lead to online piracy (likely not much in the e-book world, but even so).
If you are going to do one or the other, it is better to circumvent geo-restrictions than it is to outright pirate the book.
Diverting it to an argument about the morality of 'travelling' just seems to be muddying the waters for no point. It is no more defensible than stripping DRM. Things aren't black and white. In the end we all deal with shades of gray. Calling out one person for breaking terms of service while we do so in a different way feels a lot like we've all been spinning our wheels.