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Obviously those sharing music files on the Internet are inflicting monetary injury on the publishers, musicians, etc. I don’t think it’s quite a great a loss as they make out but, none-the-less, it is a loss.
The eBook controversy is somewhat different. For example, I bought a Kindle. Recently I bought a book from the Sony store (epub) that was not available at Amazon. I stripped the DRM so I could read it on my Kindle. If I knew I could not read an epub book on a Kindle I wouldn’t have bought the Amazon Kindle. If I knew I could not strip and convert the Sony book to mobi I wouldn’t have bought the Sony epub book. Both companies benefited because I could strip the DRM.
To return to the original post in this thread we find an individual stymied in his eBook experience because of DRM. Would not both eBook and eReader sellers be in a better position if there was no DRM constraints?
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