From what I remember hearing quite a while back (20 years?), there've been machines for quite a while now into which you insert a bound book, and they turn the pages and copy them all, turning out... a bound book. This isn't new stuff here.
Yes, some things need better definition. The key point is that you can have "theft", including "theft of service" now that I think about it (ever roll a whore? hardly a recent idea), w/o loss of the original item. The issue, it seems to me, isn't a matter of proper definition, but of detection and enforcement.
But then, we've got a bit of a problem with that in this country (USA) in general.
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