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Originally Posted by Good Old Neon
Not really, libraries loaning out books is entirely legal. It would be more like file-sharing if a library received one copy, printed up millions of copies and then made them freely available for the taking. All it takes is one file-sharer to post one copy of a book on the web and then bam, it’s available anywhere and everywhere at no charge.
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And so what? What does that have to do with the moral argument here? What is the moral argument making it OK for libraries to lend books against a specific authors wishes? And why is that argument not applicable to the situation where we freely can copy a book we borrow from the library without cost and doing it very fast?