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Originally Posted by pwalker8
That's a bit like claiming that anyone who comes in a sets up a second store where only one had existed is stealing from the previous store. Your example is functionally no different that someone setting up a new ebook store and creating ebooks from books he purchased elsewhere. The loss for the first store owner is the same regardless of where the ebook store owner got the books. As the good lawyer said earlier, in your example, the ebook owner is guilty of copyright violation and contract violation, not theft.
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Nice point.
In fact I actually heard a shopkeeper complaining that a new shop which had opened up nearby was "'stealing' his trade and customers". I and other customers in the area did not agree with his description of the situation.