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If the big publishers did not try to shaft me when they "sell" me an ebook - that is, sell me a license to use a file, often on a device of their choosing - I might feel that the transgression I commit in accessing that file from somewhere else and not paying for it was more significant. As it is, I accept that downloading a file without paying for it is unethical, and the file not being available legitimately doesn't seem to me to transform the act into an ethical one either, but given that I am not striving for a life of purity, I can live with that. I can justify it, but I can't make it ethical - sometimes we just do unethical things and if swiping a file off the darknet is the worst thing that I do in my life, well, that will be OK.
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