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The position of publishers must be that buying a book when you are in a barred jurisdiction is a breach of copyright - that is, the Intellectual Property owner of the books is entitled to put whatever conditions he likes on its sale.
This means from the publisher's POV you are a pirate, just as much as if you downloaded from rapidshare for free.
Thus everybody who knowingly buys in breach of the copyright rules is a criminal. The fact that you paid for the book is irrelevant.
The answers to this problem are a choice of 3:
One, obey the law and only have those ebooks to which you are lawfully entitled. As I live in Australia, this means almost nothing in the last 80 years or so.
Two, campaign for the iTunes model - iTunes is now the biggest music distributor on the Internet and is all paid and legal. This should only take 5 - 10 years to achieve and then we can all buy books.
Three, cheat, lie and pirate everything until the publishing industry is forced into choice Two.
The choice is up to you.
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