If I attempt to see it as something shameful, convincing arguments defending myself pop out.

To be honest, I don't feel very guilty either. Interestingly, the scihub usage is more acceptable online than the pool-and-photocopy but in real life no one has given me any grief for either. Either I've bought the Asian copy or I've been part of a pool-and-photocopy group.

It's also pretty easy for me to not judge since I've done things of dubious ethicality myself: I've never paid for a full copy of a textbook. It also feels like statistically I should have read at least one comment where someone is convinced by argument that their copyright infringement is wrong but over twenty years on the Internet, I actually haven't. I'm not saying the acts are equivalent, just that the positions are. Without judgment I find it amusing that these arguments rapidly converge to ones used by the participants on subreddits for shoplifting and stealing. Well, let me tell you I applaud Popcorn Time. It turns out I'm lazy/I choose not to spend the required time and I accept not enjoying albums and movies I otherwise would. I live in Spain, country where I pay a compensation copyright tax for every pen drive, computer, hard drive, TV set, etc, I purchase just in case I download something 'illegally'. Again, should I just accept I won't watch them knowing that I might find them in other channels? I can't find many movies I like in original language in Netflix, HBO and Amazon, all services I have legal accounts for. Should I just accept it? Once again, I could find it in Nicotine++. They told me I wouldn't find it here in Europe nor they had the means to send it to me. I remember once writing to an Aussie record label asking for a copy of an old album of Brett Garsed. What should I do? Accept that I won't find it? I can't find albums in legal sources that I can instead find in Nicotine++ (a Linux version of the old Soulseek). I'm a huge fan of swing manouche (jazz style developed during the '40s).

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