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Old 04-02-2019, 08:26 AM   #23
issybird
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"Traveling," as frequently advocated to get a book more cheaply, is really just obfuscatory speak for doing an end run around an author's ability to maximize the profits from his labors as enabled by georestrictions. It is not accurate that the reader's right to get a book for as cheaply as possible trumps that, when it violates copyright law when the provider is not entitled to provide the content in the purchaser's location, or even when the publisher is the same in both locations. Price discrimination in this instance is neither illegal or immoral.

I'm not the internet police, but I think we should be honest about what's going on. No reader's rights are trampled by georestrictions and the ability to purchase a hard copy in the country in issue is irrelevant to digital content.

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