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I don't put DRM on any of my eBooks.
In my opinion, the digital reader demographic is completely different than the music/movies/games demographic. I honestly don't see piracy of books becoming a major issue for the same reason kids steal CDs and games at Wal-Mart instead of the newest Twilight book.
Also, it has come to the point where paying is quite a bit easier than stealing. A couple years ago I dabbled in file-sharing when my kids wanted to watch a particular movie or my wife wanted some songs for her cheapo mp3 player. It was somewhat easy to find the files and I only got nailed with viruses a handful of times.
My wife recently wanted some songs so I Googled to find the "free" pirated versions. It was a pain in the butt. I got one virus and a number of the songs I downloaded turned out to be some sort of remixes that my wife was not amused by. Fed up, I went to Amazon and clicked the songs I wanted and bang there they were on a cloud drive. I dumped them on my computer to get them on her mp3 player then she put them on her computer from the cloud and put them on her work computer from the cloud as well.
I don't bother looking for "free" stuff anymore. It's not free if I am spending more than five seconds finding it or working around pirating issues. When I see an eBook I want on Amazon I click the Buy button and the hunt is over. If I wanted to pirate it the search would be just beginning.
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