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I'd have to agree that things aren't always black and white. Searching the web to find pirated ebooks? Bad. Buying a book legally from Amazon? Good. My mom and me both being on the same Amazon account so we can share our kindle books and not buy 2 copies? Fine. Briefly allowing a friend to register to my account just to download one of my books? I think it's fine - others disagree. What if another company comes out with a way cool ereader way better than kindle, and I want to switch? Is it amoral to break the DRM on my books, books I paid for, so I can read them on a different ereader?
Downloading a library book for free to read on Nook? Fine. Reading it on my PC? Fine. Downloading the book and tweaking the file so I can read it on the ereader of my choice? I don't see a big problem if you police yourself and stick to the rules (download limit, time limit, don't share the file).
The author gets paid for the copies the library buys. The author doesn't get any additional money if I read it on my PC rather than my kindle.
Morally, one has to ask what they would do if they couldn't break the DRM. Would they buy the book from Amazon, or would they buy a nook, Sony reader, or some other device for library books (or just read on the PC)? If you would have bought the book from Amazon, then yes, you are hurting the author by breaking the DRM. But if you would have bought a 2nd ereader (or just a library-capable ereader in the first place), then you aren't hurting the author.
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