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Originally Posted by LlamaZorz
If people can go to a library to read a book tax independent, then there is absolutely no difference than downloading a book online and reading it.
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You are right, financially there is no difference for the copyright owners. But for you there is. When you rent from the library you have used a public service, when you download without paying you have infringed someone's copyright, in other words "stolen".
Whether a friend gives you 5 bucks or you hit him over the head and take his money, the financial end result is still the same for both parties. But morally it is not the same.