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Originally Posted by HarryT
There would be only one set of circumstances in which I'd consider it ethically justifiable to pirate a book:
1. If no commercial eBook was available.
and:
2. I'd bought the paper book.
In those circumstances, I'd have no qualms about downloading a pirated eBook. However, if a commercial eBook did then become commercially available, I'd buy it.
So I'd have to answer "on occasions". Very rare occasions.
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Exactly right. Yes, but
only when I already owned the book and there was no eBook version available. (In several cases, I already owned a pBook and an audio book version of it! The Patrick O'Brian Aubrey/Maturin series comes to mind.)