alt Hacker NewsLibrary paid the authors.
> Didn't pay a cent.
Taxpayers did pay on your behalf by funding the Library via the Government (if Library is public).
Nothing is free. Except ofcourse stealing, which is free.
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b3lvedere • today at 3:05 PM
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Do you not think that stealing requires the original owner to lose access?
If I sneak into your home, take apart the coffee machine, measure everything, put it back together and go home and build a copy to have my own, did I steal your coffee machine?
Can we not just stick to calling it copyright infringement?