Citing China's piracy rate as a reason to avoid DRM and other means of preventing piracy is a bit of a cheat since the Chinese government has encouraged piracy.
I agree, though, that there are some pretty severe privacy issues in allowing ISPs to monitor all of my traffic and identify any books that I'm sending and receiving. As an author and publisher, I'm interested in receiving payment for my books, but as a reader, I'd just as soon not have some stranger checking out my reading material before I go in for a job interview or when I put in a bid on a government contract.
Rob Preece
Publisher,
www.BooksForABuck.com