Perhaps for a .ru site. What about my example of a perfectly legit library in the .uk? Or better yet, because they probably alter pricing to fit the market, if I borrow a perfectly legal ebook from a perfectly legit library located in Kenya where the publishers only charge the local library a tiny amount of money because the locals are kinda poor. And the library sends me a perfectly legal and legitimate official library card because cost of a beer in .usa buys enough rice to feed the librarian's kid for a month.

Note that its hardly illegal to borrow from a federated library or do an inter-library loan using p-books.

Also lets confuse the issue. Lets say the shady .ru site is in fact a perfectly legal genuine gov't supported library, although "everyone knows" this branch specializes in inter-library xfers and loaning out ebooks to mostly foreigners. This is going to be a complete mess to enforce and is not illegal in any way.

And realize any attempt to close this "loophole" is going to totally screw up foreign exchange students. Thats another excellent loophole, lets say I am now a official, govt sponsored and fully legally documented online student of the university of Elbonia, eligible for all manner of shared ebooks from the official perfectly legal and govt sponsored U. of Elbonia library.

Also I'm unaware of any recent "headline grade" prosecutions for downloading. Uploading, sure. I'm not offering to loan my ebook copy of Red Storm Rising to someone in .ru, I'm borrowing his copy. He's the one violating a copyright, assuming he is in fact violating any copyright.