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Originally Posted by Little.Egret
See discussion above, what you are calling digital theft isn't theft, so only the publisher or author could complain for various breaches of copyright law.
NOT Amazon/Google/Kobo unless their servers were hacked or they were the publisher.
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No, theft is the right word and the seller can sue. I'm not going to bother writing entire paragraphs of info, so the short version is this:
Breach of copyright consists of using the copyrighted without the copyrighters' consession. Buying a ebook is a sales agreement (License goes one way, money the other), which is governed by another set of rules. By buying an ebook, you do not get a license to use the copyrighted material; You get a license to read the stuff.