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@Ken -- great issues. I'm deferring comment on the current DRM implimentations for the moment to conentrate on the "fair and reasonable" need for content creators to have protection.
Clearly I too see a distinction between letting your immediate family read a book you just bought and distributing said book across the internet. Depending only on the good will of one's customers -- is like saying no one should lock their cars or their homes because "most people are honest".
While some authors see more value in the "advertising" that free distribution of their product brings to them -- I would say that such a view is up to the author to adopt for themselves.
I love Baen and it's many authors that put out their books for free. But I don't think Tor is in the wrong for not buying into that model for themselves.
The very nature of digital goods verses "hard" goods requires that they be treated different. Whatever the solution will eventually look like, ebooks will never be EXACTLy like paper books. I think the whole "owning" vs. "licensing" will forever be part of that distinction.
Lee
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