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I like to purchase books but object to the assumption by ebook manufacturers that i'm a potential thief (which in essence what DRM implies)
Therefore i ALWAYS strip the DRM off my files.
Either by using a specific 'cracked' format, or utilising the 'analogue hole' (Photoshop, PrtSc, Wintask, Crop, AbbyFinereader)
Would I sell or share my resultant DRM free file? Nope.
Have I lent my Eink device to family with file on it so that they can read it? Yup.
As i have not acted any differently from the way I treat a paper book, a don't feel any remorse whatsoever.
The ease which I a computer literate person deals with DRM means that I have no qualms about buying ebooks either, whilst some members of my family view buying an ebook with horror, as they have enough knowledge to understand that they can't move the file about from one device to another or even 'archive' it onto cd etc. and so therefore the concept of buying an ebook doesn't look promising to them.
(They all have ipods and won't buy from Itunes for the exact same reason, buying cd's and ripping them instead)
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