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A DRM system that works will likely be in the hands of a user. Make it too hard, too painful and folks with the know-how will treat the DRM like the Internet treats an outage: when possible, route around it.
Now, for all of what some termed at preaching on here, I was always of the opinion that the books should be sold and more importantly bought to help support the author who is doing work to please us. That was before last weekend when I had to deal with the insanity of Adobe Digital Editions on a non-Windows and non-Mac platform. I have turned 180 degrees on this. The ebook seller made it easy to purchase (which I did) but then Adobe made it insanely hard to read something I purchased on a fairly main-stream ereader (Nook). Right now I am more interested in finding a list of every book that is protected with ADE, download the list, ripping the DRM from it and ... well you know.
To answer the question: the DRM itself did more to turn me off of ebook purchases than any study and frankly my internal moral compass, that same thing that made me purchase a book for my wife in the first place, is now dictating that I punish Adobe in every way imaginable. It's on now.
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