[powerset]

If your goals are 1) pay for it 2) have the convenience of no DRM, then it sounds like doing it this way worked out fine. Except maybe that pirating as a second step is slightly less convenient than downloading directly from the same place you bought it.

[LAC-Tech]

One good thing about technical ebooks is that they know their audience can just pirate it if they want, so they don't bother with DRM. Was happy to pay for my digital copy of "Practical Object Oriented Design".