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I agree, someone who always wants something free and now is not going to be persuaded to try another option. Why bother when they can get what they want without paying? There is little point to trying to find a system that is going to work for them.
Most people understand that there is a difference between the ease and convenience of pirating and why they should do the right thing and buy what they want to read or watch. We should be working on a system that makes life easier for the rest of us.
Something without DRM, easily converted, and shared makes sense to me. I can understand why the Publishers are not thrilled with the idea that I can share my e-book with anyone I want without restrictions. I could buy the book and share with my entire family and the author only gets paid for one book.
That is why I like the way the lending is done on the Kindle. I can send the e-book to my nephew and he can read it. He has two weeks and while he has it, I cannot read it. It mimics owning the paper book. I think that is fine. I think that it is fine that libraries can only check out one copy of an e-book that they have bought at a time. If the library wants to lend to five people at once, they have to have five licenses. Again, it mimics a paper book and I think that is fair.
The bigger problem, for me, is that Publishers see e-books as something totally different then a paper book and are freaking out. This is only increasing pirating and increasing people doing things like stripping DRM and then sharing a e-book with as many people as they want at one time. If the Publishers responded in a more rational manner I think they would find that most folks are comfortable with restrictions that mimic a restriction on a paper book.
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