This is literally why a lot of people pirate content, yes. It’s pretty much always the only way to obtain the content, even if you are otherwise fine with paying for it.

Yes, and it's technically copyright infringement, even for private use. It's just that damages and enforcement is in feasible.

But if you tried to open a black market selling that media: you'd be hunted down to the ends of the earth. Or to China/North Korea, at least.

> But if you tried to open a black market selling that media

Why would you ever do that? Nobody would buy it. They'd just get it in the same place you did.

You’d be surprised, almost any flea market/swap meet will still have bootleg DVDs and “PlayStation 2s” preloaded with a billion games.

Everyone can out a disk in a DVD player; sailing the high seas is much trickier.

Undercut the competition, mainly. People will do a lot of things for a decent discount.

Needing a copy of one book you're going to spend a week reading has a lot less overhead than needing a copy of every book that you're going to process with a computer in bulk.

I like to glance at the cover art. I can do ten per second when I really get into my flow state. Sometimes I read them also, but that's incidental.

If you go to the book store and glance at all the cover art without buying any of them, do you expect to be sued for this?

If you do that and reproduce the covers or the protected elements thereof, you should absolutely expect to be sued.

So for example, if the bookstore has a nice 4k surveillance camera and you have access to it because you work there, sitting at home and using it to look at the cover art on all the books on display is something you'd expect to be sued over?

Probably not sued, but it's possible Le to be. They'd probably just fire you instead.

Having access to a camera doesn't permit you to take the footage home to review.The company still owns that footage, after all.

Now, if you had your own camera recording everything at your desk... I guess that falls into one or two party states.

Re-read my comment: "If you do that and reproduce the covers or the protected elements thereof"

This conversation becomes incredibly unenjoyable when you pull rhetorical techniques like completely ignoring the entirety of what I wrote.