Personally, I take the hardline stance and say yes, it's wrong.
However I also believe that copyright law (and not just for comics) is wildly outdated. As has been said, when you download something twenty, thirty years old that's completely out of print and has become (in physical form) a highly prized collector's item, you're not directly hurting anyone at all. I'm not saying that intellectual property is without value, but really, what tangible thing has been lost to the creator, publisher, or any owner of those physical books, if there is no legal way for people to acquire their work? As far as they're concerned, they're done making money off of it because they sold all the copies of it they planned on producing. No, it doesn't legitimize theft, but I feel that in an era characterized by things like iTunes and Amazon if a company can easily make digital versions of their content available to a wide and willing-to-pay audience and fails to do so, they're almost asking people to pirate. Once upon a time the difficulty of a second printing for a limited run was a legitimate financial excuse, but these days I just don't understand at all why digital versions aren't more readily available. To use one example, I can't comprehend why something as sought-after as Gail Simone's Deadpool run is a running joke among would-be collectors for the impossibility of securing it. Supply is ignoring demand, and it's no surprise a broken market leads to broken methods of procurement.
Anyway, again, I'll never actually condone piracy, but the industry is stabbing itself in the back with its outdated distribution chokehold.
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