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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.
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Originally Posted by meraxes
No there isn't. But there is such thing as the right to be treated like everyone else, without prejudice or discrimination.
It is illegal to say "We don't serve the blacks in our pub" or "We don't accept the jews as tenants". It is apparently still legal to say "We don't serve the British in our store", or "This book cannot be sold to Europeans or Asians or Africans or anyone who's not American". But it is just as wrong and immoral as far as I'm concerned, as well as eminently pointless in an age when anyone can obtain a pirated copy of the book free of charge.
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I believe that anyone and any company has the right to refrain from doing business with anyone that person or company doesn't want to do business with. The laws you are talking about are prime example of idiocy (and a good way of extracting money by threat of discrimination lawsuits from hard working people), as they're taking this right away - and this is wrong and immoral. Discrimination and ostracism is what people do, and hiding this under a carpet won't change that fact. So no, there is no such thing as the second right you mention either, and no one trampled on any of your rights. If you don't want to deal with publishers, you're free to do so, just as they should be free not to deal with you, if they don't want to. That doesn't in any way make depriving them of their business by sharing the books, for the rights to sell which they paid, moral, or good.