The issue with "hard to obtain" in most cases in that it is deliberate. It's easy to make available, in many cases you're even being taunted by publicly display

The issue with "hard to obtain" in most cases in that it is deliberate. It's easy to make available, in many cases you're even being taunted by publicly displaying its availability, and then telling you you can't have it. As far as I'm concerned, if that's your way of dealing with customers, all bets are off. Second, copyright laws aren't a question of ethics. They are very artificial (nothing is being "stolen" or removed, copies are not the original property) laws that have originally been created to promote the distribution of original work. If it's being abused to do exactly the opposite, again, as far as I'm concerned any ethical considerations become null and void. And don't get me started on deliberately crippling a legally acquired product with crap like DRM.