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Originally Posted by kennyc
Well, you'll find different people have different opinions on what theft is. Most tend to focus only on the "letter of the law" but I don't necessarily.
I think if you "work-around" the geo-restrictions, in that if you set up a proxy etc in order to purchase the book and actually pay for it, that is not really theft in my book because you did pay for it. In a manner of speaking you might have "cheated" whomever (if anyone) has the right to distribute the ebook in your "home" area, but you haven't cheated the author.
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That depends on the details of author's licensing and agreement with various publishers.
As an example, let's imagine an author who licensed a book to be sold in UK for percent of the sales, and sold the rights to sell the book in US for a lump sum. Now, if you live in UK, but can't buy the book from UK publisher (maybe he doesn't have the store set up yet), and you elect to cheat and buy this book from US, you will pay the money, yet steal from the author.