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by kube-system 1391 days ago
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.

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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.