Something I never really thought about until now is that I tend to feel okay with pirating "classics", or books by authors who have since died. At first, I felt

Something I never really thought about until now is that I tend to feel okay with pirating "classics", or books by authors who have since died. At first, I felt like this was probably fine, since it's almost rent-collecting for the publisher at that point, but I suppose for more recent works, the royalties are still paid to the family of the deceased? Otherwise, I feel like a decent rule is that if the majority of your friends haven't heard of it, you probably shouldn't be pirating it.