I believe you have misunderstood the issue at hand. There is no straight up theft in going to the UK, buying a book published under contract with the author in

I believe you have misunderstood the issue at hand. There is no straight up theft in going to the UK, buying a book published under contract with the author in the airport store, reading it on the plane back the US and selling it on Amazon. That is the sort of case that we're talking about here, works whose creation do not violate the laws of the US but which are not produced under US jurisdiction.