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Old 11-15-2016, 06:26 PM   #431
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Originally Posted by ZodWallop View Post
If you buy a used book from anywhere, neither the publisher or author or anyone else associated with the production of that book got a penny from you. Is that theft?
No. Those books were sold with the condition that the could be re-sold, giving added value to the buyer.

Anyone trying to legitimately sell used copies of out-of-print books is harmed (slightly) by the pirating of those books.
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