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Theft consists of two primary effects:
1. A person obtains something they have no right to own.
2. A person loses something they have a right to own.
Copyright infringement only has one of these two effects, specifically the first one.
Conversely, we can construct a situation that consists of only the second one, such as someone purposely smashing a person's e-reader that was placed on the table in front of them.
Nobody would call the second situation theft, but clearly it falls into the category of doing something wrong. It's equally possible for copyright infringement to be wrong, without claiming that it's theft.
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