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What was the topic again?
Oh yeah, the guy who says you shouldn't pirate ebooks, and does. Or did. Well I for one agree with him: piracy is wrong. Do what he says, not what he does. So he's guilty of being a hypocrassacrit. Or whatever. :-)
Doing things like breaking DRM and obscuring geolocation are definitely breaking some somebody's policy or TOS, and in some regions, the law as well. There's no whitewashing it. But these don't seem quite the same as piracy, which is actual theft. If I break DRM on an ebook and otherwise legally pay for it and only use it for my use, I'm prepared to pay the rather trivial consequences if a retailer decides to lock out my account. But exactly what fundamental moral law have I broken, in that case? I haven't stolen anything, or harmed anyone.
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