Well, if anyone outside this universe is pirating this universe's books, we'll never know.
But inside this universe, theft is theft.
And "if everything that has been or will ever be written is already so" is a meaningless statement, even in abstract philisophy. In the real world, the arrow of time goes but one way, and anything that has yet to be written has no existence until somone takes the trouble and effort and expense to write it.
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