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I have no pangs of conscience about getting creative with my methods for obtaining copies of material I have already purchased once, if they are not available by traditional means.
I also have no pangs of conscience about circumventing those traditional means to obtain things I'd like to have if I cannot obtain them any other way.
An example:
If a book I want is available on Amazon only, and I don't own a Kindle - I have no issue with breaking Amazon's terms of service and finding a like minded friend that I can pay for the cost of the book, who will obtain that file for me. Unless it's Topaz and can't be stripped, anyway. But the author got paid, Amazon got paid, and the friend didn't keep a copy cause my taste isn't his. I see NO wrong in this whatsoever.
If I have purchased an author's entire oeuvre (which I have) in paper books, I STILL fail to understand why, if I wish to have those in digital format, that I should repurchase the whole set of 53 books.
Especially if I no longer have the physical books....
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