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Originally Posted by sbroome
It makes you a user of something that is provided by your city as a legal service. Do you feel like pretending to be a lawyer right now and acting obtuse intentionally, as if you can't tell the difference between that and piracy, which rather than offering physical copies in limited supply via legal means, offers unlimited copies via illegal means?l Is that an accomplishment for you?
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Originally Posted by sbroome
The point is whether or not you paid to consume something that people are charging customers to access.
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The point is not whether you paid or not, because you can legally read books without paying. I gave the library as an example of that.
Whether a book was paid for or not is not the main indication of whether it infringes on copyright or not. You can get books for free if the author gives freebies, you can borrow books for free from the library, and under some conditions borrow from friends and family without infringing on copyright. You can buy a book from an unauthorized seller and you are infringing on copyright.