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I remove DRM from books I've bought as a matter of course. (I'm not entirely sure whether this makes me a criminal - I've read the Estonian copyright law twice and while it says one shouldn't remove protective measures from works, it also says a physical person has the right to free reproduction of a work for personal use and authors must ensure that any protective measures don't deny people that right to reproduction. Or something like that.)
I've also downloaded books from the darknet. (As far I can tell, this doesn't make a me a criminal here. A pirate though, yes.)
While I'm fully aware that the main reason behind my downloading books is a personal sense of entitlement, I do follow a personal ethical code: I pirate books that are either not legally available as ebooks at all or are not available to me (although in the latter case, I've taken to attempting to pretend I'm American and get it that way, which again means I'm breaking some kind of laws - however, I'd like to believe the authors hate me less for that crime).
A more grey area for me is "series I've seen people recommend and am somewhat curious about but that don't sound entirely like my cup of tea" - in which case I ask myself whether I would buy the first book or borrow it from the library / a friend (if I lived in a country where I could borrow it from the library or a friend). If the honest answer is "library", I'll treat darknet as the library and download the first book; if I like the first book enough to read on, I'll buy the next books (and probably eventually the first one, too). If the honest answer is "I'd probably give in and buy it", and the cost is not horrendously high, I'll give in and buy it.
I read a lot of books; even though I also pirate, I think the ratio is at least 10:1 in favour of purchased books (and I buy a few hundred books a year), and I can say that it's led me to discover and purchase books in series / by authors I probably wouldn't have bought without being able to try first (and as nice as the sample feature is, a sample isn't enough for me to get a good idea of a new series).
Oh, and I've also engaged in criminal activity in that I've "lent" an ebook I've bought (after removing DRM) to a couple of friends who had preordered the same book in hardcover, because I wanted to be able to discuss the book with them now and not two weeks later, once their ordered books arrived. (And no, they didn't cancel their orders just because they'd already read the book by the time it finally arrived.) I think that legally, considering that removing DRM for personal reproduction & downloading for personal use are both okay, that's actually the worst of my crimes...
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