Okay... what constitutes a pirate ebook dealer? In theory, I could set up an online ebook store in about 10 minutes either through some service which charges a fee and never pays the dealer a dime (I've done it once in fact and never seen a dime in return).
Alternatively, I could set up an online ebook store with the ebooks I have access to and pay the publisher a fair wholesale price based on the retail price of each ebook sold at the going rate and the volume of sales.
One one hand you have an online version of a brick & mortar book store - you don't really care where the books came from (you ordered them, sold them, and paid for them in one fashion or another), and you're honest enough to want to kick back a percentage to the publisher and author - what is fair based on your sales. You even bother to obtain a reseller's license from the state.
On the other hand you have people and supposed stores out there that cannot offer half the selection you might be able to, but charge you a fee for the few ebooks you're able to offer through their store, and then never pay you the amount you're fairly entitled to according to their terms (there's always a catch somewhere - your sales don't add up to what they say, you need to pay extra service charges, etc., etc.).
Say I have an enormous collection of books and ebooks. Say I'd like to offer them for sale legitimately and pay the publishers and through them the authors a legitimate wholesale price and royalty. How would you recommend I do that without threats from some idiot saying I'm selling pirated books (even though I have a reseller's license) and trying to shut down my supposed little online bookstore?
How does an ebook dealer stay legit or even become legit in the first place?