The product is the totality of what you pay for, not just the content of the book unless the terms of the transaction give you full rights to the content of the

The product is the totality of what you pay for, not just the content of the book unless the terms of the transaction give you full rights to the content of the book with no strings. > Maybe the author doesn’t want to get paid by people who dislike DRM. That’s fine and as I stated those people shouldn’t / won’t pay them. > That doesn’t give anyone the right to take their content without paying. This is exactly what my original comment addressed and you ignored: I contend that there is absolutely no moral or ethical problem with copying information and no valid moral or ethical basis for giving creators exclusive rights or “ownership” of their creations, when they can be copied without depriving existing holders of the information, or giving anyone special/exclusive rights to profit from information. I can see an argument for preventing corporate entities from profiting from any information or content they didn’t create, but not when it comes to people’s ability to freely copy and share. The principled answer is to support and fund people and tools that enable piracy and free information sharing, to the detriment of “rights holders”.