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Originally Posted by Solicitous
That in itself is stealing. But if I had a manuscript for sale and I was selling copies to people, but excluded you because of the street you lived in (aka geographic restrictions) and you found a copy and photocopied it....well in theory you are stealing, but it was an act you performed initiated by me by discriminating against you refusing to sell to you.
Personally my feeling is, if I am able and willing to purchase an ebook, and the sale is being refused because of my location....well I don't feel too bad (if at all) about acquiring a copy from somewhere. If a publisher will quite happily allow me to buy internationally and have delivered to my door the paperback version of a book but say no to me for an ebook copy....well they are missing out due to their actions.
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According to CommanderROR it wouldn't be stealing. Your view is much too simplistic, you tweak it just so that you can do what you want and others can't do the same onto you. If publishers had only one price worldwide and US sellers could sell to anyone then in the end only US sellers would survive. And an international trade war would break out over lost tax revenue and distribution of possibly censored books. You can easily find that book elsewhere (probably you would have to pay a little bit more) you just want it for free.