As for the illegal coping issue, the greatest danger to a new author is not pirates, its anonymity.
I like how Mark at Smashwords put it:
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The biggest threat facing authors and publishers today is not piracy, it's obscurity. Anything that makes a book less accessible and less enjoyable makes it more obscure.
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Many successful companies (I am looking at you Macfee) have been built on the success driven on
not fighting pirates and
not using any protection at all. From an ebook perspective this is a great fairly short write up on the topic:
http://blog.smashwords.com/2011/03/r...s-against.html
Several news reports have come out over the years stating pirates have been shown to INCREASE sales. They do not get much play because its counter intuitive so people do not seem to listen.