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Originally Posted by Sil_liS
The term was meant for people who copied the works for sale: publishers. If wasn't used for readers who wanted to share the books that they read.
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That's because the publishers were the ones with the technology to copy books. The Berne Convention certainly doesn't make any distinction when it comes to who is copying the items: pirated works must be seized and destroyed if imported to the territory of a signatory to the Convention; it's there in black and white in Article 12.