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Originally Posted by HarryT
Many people compare piracy to libraries, but this is a very misleading analogy. If 1000 libraries buy a copy of a book, that's 1000 sales for the author. Very often too, publishers produce special "library editions" of books which cost more than the normal book. If 1000 people download an illegally scanned copy of a book, that's zero sales for the author (well, perhaps 1 sale if you count the original book).
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But it's us, the tax-payers, who provide the money for libraries to buy books, the vast majority of which we won't read.
People are forced to pay for books they don't want.
Maybe downloading books they do want could be seen as a quid pro quo.