This thread started out amusing to read, but now it's just
and getting too painful to read anymore.
I have to ask ottischwenk though, how exactly did you know that a book you had on your stolen reader appeared on a pirate site, and it was that exact copy from your reader? Did law enforcement come knocking on your door and accuse you of file sharing?
For myself, I buy all my books mostly through Amazon lately, only through my PC to keep a catalog of purchases, strip DRM and sideload to my reader. I'm the only one in my family/friends that uses an ereader, so there's no more passing along of books anymore, only I read the ebooks. When I read paperbacks though, those would get passed around quite a lot and the author would miss out on those sales. Strictly in accordance with law, but the author really lost out, just as they lost out on used book sales. And I'm perfectly content if ottischwenk wants to call me a thief because I'm protecting my purchases from stores closing and devices breaking.
But they've stated such contradictions along the way, license is per person, then per device, then per account, they can pass their device to let others read and that's not against the law... their arguments have completely lost all credibility.