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Originally Posted by Krystian Galaj
I wonder, is buying those books this way different from downloading them from Darknet? In both cases the money doesn't go to the owner of the rights to sell the book in your country, so the argument that it's, as piracy antagonists say, stealing in relation to owner of those rights seems solid.
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How I would compare buying books by going around regional restrictions vs downloading from the darknet? As an example I would give buying liquor in the US if you are below legal drinking age. What is better, pretending to be 21 and paying for it at the counter or just slipping it under your coat and sneaking out? You tell me.
And in our case nobody would get hurt, since some of the books are not even available in other places where we can get them through regular means. In the end everybody wins. Even better, if the books are available elsewhere publishers/distributors/governments in other countries will be forced to charge reasonable prices or they will just have to open the markets and have a free for all. Because they cannot stop this, as last resort I could always get a US credit card.