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I don't feel guilty about those years of downloading first, paying (i.e. buying DVDs) later, even if I don't do it any more for the simple reason that I can't afford to accumulate more physical media in my limited-space home.
I don't think the person in the article, who paid first and then upon realising they wouldn't be allowed to actually watch the paid-for content (regardless of whether they should have realised it before signing up or not) should feel guilty either. They've paid; the content creator gets what is theirs.
Is this illegal? Possibly. (Downloading for personal purposes, I've gathered, isn't illegal in all jurisdictions - so depending on how they download something, whether directly or uploading at the same time, and where they are located, it may not even be illegal.) Is it immoral? Not to me.
It often happens that what one person sees as justifications and excuses are meant as explanations. People explaining their reasons in a thread that directly calls for people to explain their motivations is IMHO not necessarily either justification or making excuses.
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