I agree it's the same as in piracy, and I do the exact same there - pay for what I can, download the rest. Regarding the bandwidth costs, those are absolutely

I agree it's the same as in piracy, and I do the exact same there - pay for what I can, download the rest. Regarding the bandwidth costs, those are absolutely negligible, since the methods for bypassing the paywalls either only fetch the text (e.g. http://outline.com http://outline.com) or cache it on other servers (e.g. http://archive.is http://archive.is). It is definitively not what they wish, but not complying with someone's wishes is not harming them. -- On that last point, while I don't take my moral code from the law, I note that it agrees with me; for example, even if you have a contract with a guy to build your house, and you say your want a certain brand of pipes, but he ends up using another, you're not entitled to anything. Unfulfilled wishes are not harms.