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Originally Posted by pwalker8
I was under the impression that we were talking about by passing geo-restrictions in order to buy something that is not available in your area.
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Both aspects have been raised and "economic gain" has been invoked. But I don't care; I'm willing to rephrase the comment with that restriction.
The stakeholders in the book, including the author, have the legal right to exploit copyright of digital books however they choose, even if it's withholding it from certain markets. Perhaps it's even with a view to maximizing revenue from the book at that; different markets may have calendar-related sweet spots, but the reason doesn't matter. At what point does this right, based on copyright, cease to exist? When someone wants to read it?
It's a slippery slope, indeed. Like DiapDealer and as I've said upthread, I'm not the internet morality police, but I don't like it when people present their chicanery as the moral option. There's the easy option: don't do it. Respect the legal rights of the author and other stakeholders and move on.
I find the parsing of the moral options quite odd, at times. "Traveling" to Canada or the US from a Life + 70 country to obtain for free the work of an author who's been dead for 69 years? "Oh, no, I couldn't do
that!" "Traveling" to another country when it's trampling on the legal rights to his work of an living author who's trying to maximize his earnings now, whether you're saving money or just because you wanna? "Where's my credit card?" Does paying anything, even a few cents, make that moral? What about books that are free in one market and not another? And there's the conundrum where a book that's public domain in Canada, say, and it's for sale at Kobo, so someone "travels" there to buy it, when they could get it at Faded Page for free?
It's like the convolutions they had to go through to justify the sun traveling around the earth. There's an easier solution - if you're talking morality.
But,
again, I'm not the morality police. But you're not convincing me, either.