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If two players play the same game and they both have copies, then that wouldn't even be library sharing yet. That's just normal use.
They're pointing out that for multiple users to play the same game at the same time, you need multiple copies. With just one license for each game, different members can play different games at the same time, but they can't start up a game that someone else is already playing, if there's only one copy to go around.
Now if more than one member has a game, the number of copies in the family becomes the limit for how many can play that game at the same time. So if two people have a game, but the family has five members, any two members can play the game at the same time, not just the owners.
And at the same time the remaining three members could also play whatever else, still at the same time.