[Stinger]

I think the key difference between your driving fast example and the case here, at least to me, morally, is that his download is in not affecting anyone else, especially in terms of health and safety.

With that said, artificial scarcity created by geo-restrictions is about controlling markets and maximizing profits for the big conglomerates, there is no moral or ethical reasoning behind it. Restricting people's access to literature over nothing more than corporate politics remind me of the horror stories my parents used to tell me about living in Communist Czechoslovakia.

The key ethical issue here is: "Who should get to decide what literature I can and cannot legally buy and read?"