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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 4919083" data-attributes="member: 2209">Then there are those who use the books of others in their group, use the data, and never pay for it themselves. Those seem to be the same kind of "lost sale" as acquiring free copies, but not infringing and not wrong.If the downloads were a pure lend service, (only one copy exists, just used by different people at different times) that would not be copywrite infringement and the copywrite holders would still "lose" those sales.Further, these would only be lost sales if the person using the data would actually buy the book if they could not get it for free instead of doing without it.I don't want to pay retail price for books. I buy cheap legal pdfs and used books, I borrow books from friends and the library, I give book suggestions when family members ask me what I'd like for a birthday gift. I found multiple ways to get around paying retail price for books and still use the data. I am not doing something wrong.</blockquote>