You could always buy DRM free books, or destructively scan + OCR dead tree books. For destructive scanning, the obvious question is why you’d go through the tr

You could always buy DRM free books, or destructively scan + OCR dead tree books. For destructive scanning, the obvious question is why you’d go through the trouble and not upload it to some sort of shadow libs. I get the impression that the pendulum is rapidly swinging back to piracy as a moral imperative. I was happy paying for HBO Max due to the high quality original content, but then they fired all the actors. So, there was an implicit social contract (you produce tv/movies that generate revenue, we distribute it, and pay you for the next one), but now it has been broken. From a customer perspective, paying the middle man, knowing the people that produced the product will not be paid is immoral. (Yes, I know residuals exist. That’s not good enough.)