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Originally Posted by JSWolf
But for every DRMed eBook you would have bought had it not had DRM, you'll have to let the publisher know that you did not buy it because of the DRM. This is the only way they might get the message.
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There are also sites like this one:
Lost Book Sales:
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Every day an author and a publisher lose out on a sale of book. This is a site for readers to tell the world about the lost sale whether it is because of price, territorial restrictions or general availability. There are a whole host of reasons a particular book is not distributed all over the world. Sometimes agents advise their authors to sell only domestic rights which usually means US or UK get the goods. Sometimes publishers aren’t exploiting those rights.
When an author writes a book, intellectual property rights are created that run with the book. Think of those rights as a bouquet of flowers. When authors enter into contracts with publishers, generally, they sell just a few flowers to the publishers. Those flowers give the publisher the right to use that Book in various ways but only in North America. But these contracts can vary a great deal. Foreign rights sales can end up making as much money for the author as the original advance.
What I have been told by some authors is that they don’t want to impair their marketability for those foreign markets by allowing an English-language digital edition to be sold in that region. Other authors say that their foreign edition rights haven’t been purchased by any publisher and they don’t want to give them up for no additional money.
Still other authors say that their publishers have the rights and the publishers won’t exploit them. Nonetheless, the only reality we readers know is that we want to buy the book but can’t.
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While this site may not be the best for your particular request...it wouldn't be too hard to create something like it specifically related to DRM. In fact, if I had the ability to do so and attach it to MR like the wiki, I would do so.