Are you having an impact? Do you have publishers quaking in their boots? Do you even have a plan to extract your demands? Or are you just pirating shit you want to read and dressing it up as meaningful? Which achieves what?

Activism would mean you are out there convincing people who don’t already agree with you, and making hard choices about your own consumption, such as with a boycott.

You’re just enjoying the fruits of people’s labour without compensating them.

Cheap, cheap, cheap.