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The problem is, Steve, that the author and/or publisher has little control over store-imposed DRM. No matter how strongly you oppose it, they will apply it regardless.
I think the idea of compensating someone who's already paid their money in all innocence for a book of yours that carries third-party retail-imposed DRM with a free non-DRM copy is an effective way to play as fair as you'd obviously like to.
If a few more authors and publishers take the pledge as we have done, the stores might not like it ... but as far as I'm concerned, they can go take Kurt Vonnegut's famous flying f*ck at the mooooooooooon!
And, who knows, it might just make a few of the big boys think again if we protest in a way that doesn't directly hit their sales, but does seriouslty undermine their nefarious policy of DRM imposition by making it less and less effective and more and more notoriously discredited.
Good luck, Steve. I admire your stance and your pluck. Neil
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