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Its ethical as you dont contribute to bad incentives which is the lock down of information behind DRM. Profits motives come after such considerations.

We have been living millenia without DRM protection of books so I would wager the justification of their necessity is dubious at best.

Piracy gives the same amount to the author as borrowing from a friend or from the library. It is just more efficient.

I 100% always pay for books available without DRM such as from No Starch Press. I encourage any authors reading to consider similarly ethical publishers.

Does the author pay every person they got all their ideas from ? We are talking about very complex one to many relationships that are practically unaccountable.