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Originally Posted by HarryT
Equally, though, your blanket assertion that:
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"people that consume content that's up for sale without paying" describes library patrons perfectly.
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Which part is untrue? Are they not consuming content? Is the content not up for sale? If you are disagreeing with the "without paying" part because they pay taxes and the taxes go to the libraries and from there in some countries some money goes to some authors, then you are considering a very indirect way of payment. On top of this the contribution to this payment doesn't come only from the library patrons, but from everyone that pays taxes, including pirates, which would mean that pirates are also paying the authors.