Oh, hey, this seems like it’s related to my stance on piracy of intellectual property. Around 1990 I finally articulated how I feel about piracy and it’s still true for me: If a thing (software, usually, but music, whatever) is for sale at a price that I’d pay if that was the only way to get it, then I’m personally obligated to pay for it. If it’s priced such that I would just take a pass, then I’m free to acquire a copy of it however I want because I’m not hurting anyone. As a result, since leaving the embrace of university student-pricing, I’ve always pirated e.g. Adobe software. If I could have PWIW, then I would have. (In that particular case, I mostly use gimp these days instead of Photoshop, but the point stands.)