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All this is blather....there is no justification for theft of a literary work, whether it is the failure to return a book to the library, or walking out of the store with a book under your coat.
On the other hand, claiming 9,000,000 or some equally absurd or uncheckable number of ebooks being pirated as a denial of income to authors or publishers is equally absurd. These hardworking folks gain no further compensation when I buy a used book or borrow a book from a friend or library. It's just that ebooks are easier to lend or recirculate.
That's no less progress than the printing press allowing multi copies of "rare" or "sacred" texts done by monks on scrolls.
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