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I agree that the screen size makes scanned pages potentially usable. This isn't only useful for piracy, scanning books you own will be legal in more places than stripping DRM. It does make piracy simpler. The article comments suggests that students are already photocopying entire textbooks because this is cheaper than buying them. A Kindle DX is expensive, but it is the kind of thing that a student might get as a gift.
One thing the article assumed, though, was that Amazon did not screw up the addition of PDFs to the device. In fact, the KDX does not search the contents of PDFs in its "all content" search and does not allow notes in PDFs. Search inside an open PDF apparently works, but obviously not if the PDF is all images. I don't understand the lack of note taking capability for a device designed for text books.
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