[DrNefario]

I consider myself an honest person (who doesn't?) and realise that I need to pull my weight financially if I want the things I like to continue to be made. I don't download TV shows. I don't pirate music (although I do still tend to buy CDs and rip them myself.) I don't even buy used games, although that's more of a quality thing than an ethical decision.

I did have a handful of MP3s I shouldn't have had when file-sharing was a new thing, and I am fairly sure some of the ebooks I read way back when on my Palm Pilot must have been illegitimate, but basically I don't pirate.

Would I pirate? If the money was going to someone I definitely did not want to support? Like a politician I despise (not sure I really need the "I despise" bit, there :-)), or an organisation I dislike? Hmm. Maybe.

There are also one or two books in my collection that are possibly not out of copyright here in the UK. There are two free Agatha Christie books on the Kobo store, for instance, which are out of copyright in the US, but I'm not sure they ought to be in the UK. I'm not sure whose problem that is if I downloaded them in good faith. Morally, I don't have too much of a problem with it, since Christie is dead, and I wouldn't have downloaded them if they weren't free (and if I really like them, I'll probably buy some).

Edit: Sorry to go on, but I've just thought of this:

I've been trying to read all of the Hugo award winners. Many of them aren't available as ebooks, or weren't when I was looking. In searching for them, I would often find links to torrents for the whole set, but where's the joy in that? Searching these books out was half the fun.

I'm still missing three. One of them (Stranger in a Strange Land) was available as an ebook and now isn't. Bah.