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Originally Posted by HansTWN
We are talking about access to books. You can easily access them legally just by paying for them.
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I can legally access a great multitude of books without paying for them.
Why is "picking up a book someone left at the mailboxes in my apartment and chopping and scanning it" a reasonable action, but "reading a book I downloaded" is "slave labor from content creators for my personal pleasure?"
In either case, the author gets no money. In the case of the download, the author might get another reader; the book I chopped-and-scanned is a dead end for the creator.