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Tough question. On one hand, it's easy enough to get Amazon books for the Kindle, so piracy will not be supported by that.
On the other hand, there are always the books Amazon doesn't carry (and make no mistake, there's plenty of those). If a Kindle reader is looking for such a book, they might find it on the darknet, thereby supporting piracy. And if Kindle does well in the market, there will be more customers potentially looking through that darknet material for hard-to-find books.
Finally, Kindle owners might want to convert printed books they already own into Kindle books, a sort of "back-up" craze, which they (naturally) will expect they shouldn't have to pay for, and will get them free from darknet.
I think the Kindle itself won't necessarily foster piracy... but the growing number of e-book users, coupled with the (lack of) variety of e-books available to Kindle owners, just might.
FYI: I didn't vote, because my feelings are somewhere in the middle here.
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