There are two sides to this. First, if it had been a paper book, there would
have been nothing to stop her from buying it, even using her real address.
Second, living in Canada, I find I cannot buy something online, because the U.S.
source won't sell to Canada, yet there is no legal Canadian source. An example
of this is with the Amazon app for downloading music that's installed on my
phone and I can't delete. It works with the U.S. Amazon, not Canada. But even
if it did work with Canadian Amazon, there still wouldn't be any music to buy,
as Amazon in Canada doesn't sell MP3s. I have never been denied the ability to
buy paper books or plastic CDs from the U.S..
So, while I can understand the rights of authors etc., with DRM, consumers have
lost a lot in material being denied them.
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