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I'm pretty close to law-abiding side of this discussion but the world is not black-and-white.
Example? I purchase legal copies of any software I use "for a purpose" at home and absolutely everything used in any way at work. But there are pieces of software that I may be curious about whose publishers do not have an adequare demo version of. In those cases I feel 100% justified in sampling an illegal copy and deciding whether to buy it or delete it.
Does that violate the letter of the law? Yes, no argument. But the morality is snow white to me.
Another example? I'm undecided on this one. Suppose I bought a particular printed book. Should I have to buy the e-book version also? Or is it okay, in this case, to obtain a darknet copy (I love that term here)? How is it different than buying a CD and copying it to tape or MP3 for my own use? I lean toward equivalency here, that it is moral if not even legal (and it might be).
What say you? Am I just a scoundrel for these considerations in your black-and-white world?
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