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Originally Posted by HarryT
That's because they assume (rightly, unfortunately) that even if they are caught they will be fined less than the retail cost of those books. ie it's a win-win situation for them. No matter what happens they're ahead. And that's why fines should reflect the retail value.
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No, that is not the reason. The reason is that you want the collection to maybe select 10 books per year to read.
And in most cases the retail value is 0 since the books are not available or at least that used to be the case.
With your principle we will get the business idea of selling books for absurd high price like $1000000. Then if it gets pirated you get the fine for a book that nobody would have bought. And this is absurd and shows that your principle cannot work in the simplistic terms you present it.