Commercial advantage or private financial gain does not mean what some posts seem to believe it means. In fact. the US Department of Justice, in referring to a provision of this type, wrote:
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The drafting committee's purpose in retaining this requirement has been to exclude from criminal liability those individuals who willfully infringe copyrights solely for their own personal use.
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You can find this at
Copyright Infringement
If you download a pirated copy of a book for your own personal use you have arguably advantaged yourself financially to the extent of the purchase price you did not pay. But it seems, at least in the US, that this alone is not sufficient to make the infringement criminal. Of course the Courts could see this differently if the matter is ever tested, though I doubt it.