@socks @internetarchive
You do move the physical book, but you do not transmit the content independently of it.
It is not telepathy))
Anyway, you may benefit from distinguishing the concept of «physical book» which refers to the physical item, and the generic concept of «book» which refers to a literary work which can exist in a variety of mediums (e.g. physically printed, electronic, audio, etc.).
@AndersBaerbock @internetarchive anyways, say I go donate some books to my library, they add those books to their collection and start circulating them. They didn't get permission to give those books out or store them from the publisher, hell, they didn't even pay for them. It's still not piracy.
Now, if I donate books to the Internet Archive and they start circulating those books in the exact same way my local library does, just through a digital rather than a physical medium, it's piracy?