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Basically: should i care about ethics?

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[–] bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 hours ago

IMO if you cannot get it in a format that's appropriate it's warranted.

For example ebooks that only come with drm so you can't add it as an epub to your ereader.

I usually buy the book and then acquire the epub