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DRM is not like installing a camera in a store. It's more like telling each honest customer who has just bought an item: "You've only paid because there are cameras. Otherwise you would have stolen that item."
And that's just one of the reasons why I really dislike DRM.
Though it's not about books - but if there was something similar I'd react in a similar manner: There's that DVD I've bought new and at full price that has this obnoxious anti piracy spot on it that I can't skip. After realizing that, I was furious. Why do I get punished for buying the DVD instead of pirating the movie? No one who pirates will ever see that clip or care for it (if they are the ones ripping the DVD) - and they won't have to suffer through that clip everytime they watch the DVD, unless me, the honest customer.
Nowadays I do check before buying if there's something like that on the DVD. Doesn't mean I pirate the movies now, but I will not buy a DVD new at full price that has some measure like that. Also I warned my friends about it.
Of course a DVD is not a book - but it's a good example, I think, on how to NOT treat your customers if you want them to buy more of your products.
I can't see DRM helping anyone. It makes people who are aware of it angry or sad, because they can't buy books from Amazon to read on their ePub reader, for example, without stripping DRM. And some people don't want to do that because they are afraid of being punished, even though they have paid for the content and don't want share it or upload it, but simply want to read it.
And to say "then get yourself a Kindle" is like saying "you have to buy a different kind of TV for channel 4-6 than the one you have that works for channel 1-3". A publisher or seller really shouldn't care on which device I read my book (or watch my TV show), as long as I pay for it - unless they want to sell readers and TVs or limit their audience that is, of course.
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