How about the verb
snarf for obtaining a copy without paying? It already has a very similar sense. The computing dictionary at dictionary.com has:
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3. To acquire, with little concern for legal forms or politesse (but not quite by stealing). "They were giving away samples, so I snarfed a bunch of them."
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Copies that you make once you've got the content could be called
copies.
So, you'd say: "I was going to snarf the file off the darknet, but I found it on Amazon for a few quid instead." Or "I think snarfing a file is as bad as stealing a book." Or "Information wants to be snarfed!"