[Swizec]

I pay for HBO and they would have aired Game of Thrones on Monday evening this week. A day later than in the US, which is fine by me.

But I was on a plane at that time and I have boxing practice when GoT airs anyway. So I shamelessly pirated the episode while at the airport (when did airport hotspots become 3.5MB/s monsters anyway?) intending to watch it on my laptop while flying over the atlantic.

I ended up watching it yesterday morning as I woke up at 6am due to jetlag.

I feel I did nothing wrong.

[crusso]

Exactly. You've paid for the content but simply changed the way you receive it. Ethically, I think you're on pretty strong grounds.

It's unfortunate that folks like us who would like to be able to do common sense things with content are caught in a war between extremists on both sides. We have the rabid content creators and protectors suing everyone for every infraction and corrupting our legal system in the process - then we have the piracy zealots who feel no compunction with having an artist make zero from creating a great deal of desirable content because "information/data should be free".