It’s the letter of the law: media shifting is legal in some places where downloading a copy from an unofficial site is not. Also, there are people out there who would not have the first idea where to look for an existing rip.

The white is like staring into the Sun.

Sad to say that, because of the capitalization, the first thing that came to mind was “Toronto Sun or Vancouver Sun?” I think they both still have paper editions, so they’d be at least white-adjacent . . .