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Maybe a bit of organized disobedience could turn the tables. If more people started reading pirated ebooks, that could force publishers to abandon DRM and lower their prices. If organized properly, such action could be considered morally acceptable. For example, if we were to take a limited number of pirated ebooks from each publisher who uses DRM, and offer them online with the express purpose of exerting pressure on the industry... we could even sell the pirated ebooks and send the money to the publisher, just to prove that we're serious.
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It's impossible to organize such a movement yet as the ebook hasn't met a populist success. Further still, ebook readers, being only coveted by gadgeteers at this point, strike a very egotistical chord in the psyche of many of us. No way to have a consensus worthy of action at this point.