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Just to make two points that I haven't seen anyone make yet. Firstly, there's a big difference between "not buying e-books" and "not buying e-books and complaining about DRM". In the former case the publishers can't tell exactly why they aren't selling. So I'd encourage anyone who has problems with current DRM strategies to complain, not to stop complaining as the first poster requested.
Secondly, my problem with current DRM schemes is not that they make me "feel like a criminal" but that, in order to stop me commiting civil law infractions they stop me doing lots of useful, legal things. For example, I've used speech conversion software to put Gutenberg texts into audio files for a media player which isn't going to be supported technically by the publisher, I've used better search software to check through texts I've got on my machine than is available on mobile readers, etc. I've been lucky enough not to have bought any locked data that the producer suddenly couldn't be bothered to support when they bought out a different format, but that has been luck.
The publishers just take the easy way out: there's something illegal a person could do but the can't be bothered to find and deal with those who actually do that, they instead proscribe any action which might lead to an illegal act. This principle isn't applied in other areas: I'm not put in a controlled environment like prison because I have the capacity to commit a mugging, only if I actually do. If you come up with a DRM scheme that helps you _catch_ people who break copyright as defined currently then I'd be supportive, but DRM which attempts to control everyone's control is something where I'll put my money elsewhere, even if it means missing out on the author I really want to read. (Since I don't live on credit and don't earn huge amounts of money, arguments about "oh it's only x dollars to just rebuy books in different formats/for different machines" don't work with me.)
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