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Originally Posted by DawnFalcon
For a copy to be legal, you need to have acquired it in a fully legal fashion. If you bypass georestrictions, then you are bypassing a measure intended to restrict who it legally available to, and hence the copy's unliscenced. (Due to UK computing law, there's also a potential criminal offence there for just that, too - it's pretty broad ranging on what "unauthorised access" really means - it's *probably* non-prosecutable, but that's not been tested!).
The store's legality, well, it probably says they have to take "reasonable measures", which means if you've bypassed those measures, no foul to them. If they did nothing, or say just put a text warning up? Probably not sufficient.
Don't look at me, I didn't write the laws!
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But that's the point geo-restrictions are not a law so by bypassing them you are NOT breaking a law therefore copyright law is completely irrelevant.
I cant see any law that would be broken by the buyer in that transaction.
It is legal to use a proxy
It is legal to buy ebooks from the US
The contract between the publisher and store cannot create a new law.
No existing laws are being breached.
I guess the potential exist for teh book seller or store to try and sue for damages!
But even from what you say I cant see any law breaking.