[vorpalhex]

You can't give a free copy to the local library to drive sales and be upset when people borrow the book and read it from the local library.

[kube-system]

And you cannot take a book from someone who asks for money, refuse to pay, and say "but it's free at the library!"

The difference is consent.

[vorpalhex]

But we are literally getting the copy here from the library because the author gave the book to the library.

Google is obeying robots.txt. Google caches a copy of what you serve and gives that out. That is part of the deal.

[hk__2]

> You can't give a free copy to the local library to drive sales

Nobody does that. The comparison doesn’t hold.

[vorpalhex]

You are doing that when you let Google past the paywall.