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Sure sue them and go argue about it in court. There's already multiple decades worth of precedence against you in the matter.

In the US, sure, but e.g. German courts may look at it differently.

There might be. But a jury might not care.

I wholeheartedly agree: don't say something in the UI and the opposite in the ToS.

I can slightly sympathize that digital media may have different rules than physical, but some are just misleading.

Buy...a license.

Buying a license is what you do when you hire a legal firm to draft you one. Not when you click "Buy" on a Kindle E-Book on Amazon.

you bought a license. this is not the checkmate you think it is.