Exactly. As a librarian I believe in more access to knowledge, information, and books, but at the same time I have some published authors as friends and when this story about the potential lawsuit first broke, they went to check if their works were available through IA, found out it was, and they were livid about e-copies of their books being available to borrow for free by unlimited amounts of people.

Sometimes a tree is just a tree and sometimes it is a symbol for something else. The trick is to develop good close-reading skills to recognize when a case can be made that a symbol is really there and when a blue curtain is just a blue curtain.