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"Many" would be ... um ... one? And that one may be just trying to wind you up.
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I counted a quite a few who pretty much told Jordan that piracy was best thing that ever happened to him and told him that he was a crybaby and a quitter if he disagreed.
If you can predict the future like that, you need to be in the stock market
In the meantime, I'm having a tough time fitting my casette tape in my Ipad.
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DRM does not "preserve and protect" the rights of anyone. Though it does protect the self-assigned privileges of device manufacturers. (on which note, I don't think you've explained yet how I'm supposed to read .mobi-formatted books on my Sony)
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Presumably, the same way you can run IOS programs on Android devices. Oh wait, you can't.
What about the way you can run Macinintosh programs on Windows machines. Hot damn, you can't do that either. And you can't run Playstation games on XBox.
Could it be that is a lot of device incompatability out there and its just not limited to ebooks? DING DING DING!
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So why are there so many authors out there who do not find it necessary to DRM-lock their ebooks? And why are they still writing books?
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Masochism, maybe? What matters is that MOST bestselling authors and publishers apparently find DRM necessary. Maybe you need to write a nice letter to Stephen King , Dan Brown, Dean Kootnz, or John Scalzi and convince them to put their next book out there DRM free. They might ask you to guarantee their losses, though. Would you be willing to put your money where your mouth is? Or do I hear crickets chirping?