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Originally Posted by kazbates
Downloading an pirated ebook is no different than going to a furniture store, picking up a chair from the showroom and taking it home for your own personal use without paying the store.
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Except for the (crucially important) difference that the furniture store would be missing a chair, while the publisher would still have the ebook. This is why it's copyright infringement and not theft.
I'm not advocating copyright infringement, just pointing out that the two things are not equivalent.