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Originally Posted by Stinger
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?"
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Yes, but that argument you can apply to copyright laws and the absurd length of copyright protection. And then it becomes a good argument for breaking the rules.
But if you think copyright as it is today is a good idea then I really do not think that companies using the existing copyright by having geographical restrictions is doing something you can complain about.