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Originally Posted by HarryT
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.
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You were talking about the traditional use of the word pirate when it comes copying books. For 4 centuries that word was used for publishers only, making publishers the traditional book pirates.