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by crusso 4828 days ago
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".