[IshKebab]

And also it's a lot easier to copy a digitally borrowed book than it is to copy a physically borrowed book.

There are practical differences between the two, which mean that the law probably should treat them differently. I expect a lot of HN have difficulty dealing with that because they think "but they both contain the same information".

It reminds me of people trying to encode books into prime numbers or the digits or pi or whatnot to "get around" copyright. Fundamentally missing the point.