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Originally Posted by HarryT
It's the same as asking if there's any ethical difference between buying a bottle of Scotch in a supermarket, on which all the appropriate taxes have been paid, and buying the same brand at half the price from "a man in a pub", which has been smuggled from France, and on which UK taxes have not been paid. The end result is the same - you have a bottle of whisky - but one has been obtained legitimately and the other from an illicit source.
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Actually, that would be more like buying an ebook from an America only ebook store when you are not in America. The original Whiskey producer would have been paid, the shopkeeper in France would have been paid, and French taxes would have bee paid.