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Originally Posted by gouzos
So what if it's legal? We're talking about morality and what should be legal not what is legal right now.
I still can't see the difference unless you live in one of the very few countries where libraries pay royalties when a book is lent out.
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Well, one difference is that libraries buy books; in fact they are very often a major component of hardback sales for an author. If 1000 libraries have a copy of a book, that's 1000 sales for the author. It takes only 1 copy of a book to be uploaded to the internet in order for arbitrarily many people to download it.