i pirated my first book on programming. circumstances forced me to: not affordable for a young african surviving on ~$50/mo, no debit/credit card (these payment

i pirated my first book on programming. circumstances forced me to: not affordable for a young african surviving on ~$50/mo, no debit/credit card (these payment instruments won’t become popular until mid 2010s), thee general availability of resources via torrent sites. now i don’t pirate my books anymore, or i haven’t found it necessary to. but sometimes piracy agrees with the intentions of the author of the work, disagrees with the distribution mechanism. as distribution becomes worse, as demonstrated in the article, the elegant simplicity of piracy can only become more and more attractive.