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Originally Posted by meraxes
There's a legal course of action, and there's the right one, which are not necessarily the same. The copyright business model is only "legal" because most people rightly believe authors should be rewarded for their creative work, and copyright is the only way to do it the world has invented so far. But if this business model is screwed up by the publishers to the extent that I'm left with no legal way to obtain the book because I come from the "wrong" country, then I no longer feel obliged to respect this business model. The publishers discriminate against me, for their twisted business reasons, simply because they can - well, I'll just take what I want from them, because I can, too, and they've left me no other way. They can't trample on my rights and still demand respect for theirs. It's still illegal of course, but not "wrong" in my book - when someone hits me, I hit back. And the author would not get a penny from me in any case, his publishers simply won't take my money. So there's no point trying to make me feel guilty by calling it "theft" - call it what you like in fact, I don't care.
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So, if I understand correctly:
1) The publisher obtained rights to sell a book and paid money for them, expecting to make a profit from it in normal market conditions. This might have caused an author to write the book in the first place.
2) They don't want to have business with you, for whatever reasons (I expect more legal of economical than anything else).
3) There's no such thing as a right to be able to obtain anything you want. So no one trampled on any of your rights.
4) By downloading the book for free, and possibly sharing it with other people who might have bought the book otherwise, you are indirectly lowering the market demand for it, thus harming the publisher.
I don't see how you can call what you're doing fair to publishers. It looks to me like you're sponging off their work. I don't care if you feel guilty either, but I wish there were less people like you.