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Originally Posted by lente
No, indeed, ebooks are not more important to me than living a good moral life, are they for you?
As for what publishers will or will not do in the future, I wouldn't know. I hope they do come around to seeing it more like most of us do, and I think they will, but it will take time, maybe a lot of time. I'm not convinced that downloading ebooks illegally will help our cause.
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I don't see any criminal action in buying a book, myself. I doubt the author cares about where I live.
In case lying about my location is some sort of fraud, yes, I can live perfectly with the knowledge I am committing fraud in this case. Nobody is getting worse, only better. There is no other way for me to get the book (as nobody else publishes it for me to get legally). So the publisher who owns the rights for the book in my region isn't losing anything (how can you lose a sale if you don't even sell it?), the publisher who does publish the book gets my money and part of that money goes to the author as agreed between the publisher and author.
Mind you, I'm still talking about buying the book and only circumventing restrictions, not downloading from the darknet!