[khalleron]

You've made a whole bunch of very insulting assumptions. First of all, I'm over 50, so the 'before you were born' thing is insulting in the highest degree. I've also been involved in ebook publishing, back before very many people were, when Amazon was just a list of titles and ISBN numbers, so yes, I do know something about it.

We're not kids (mostly), we're not thieves, we don't think stealing is good or justifiable. You're using a way of thinking that's been disproved over and over, since the invention of reel-to-reel tape recorders (remember those? I do! Used to have one!)

Most people want to buy the things they use - as other people have posted here, DRM doesn't prevent theft, nor does the absence of DRM *make* people steal. All DRM does is prevent the *purchasers* of the content from using it properly. My first ereader was a Franklin ebookman, which used its own format and .prc. My second one was an iPaq that used .lit. Now I own a Sony that uses .lrf, .lrx, and epub. If I had bought DRM content, I would not be able to read the books I *bought*.

All we're asking from publishers is to treat us with respect, stop treating us as though we're thieves, and give us content we can enjoy and use.

As another user's signature here says: DRM is like saying if you want to read our book, you have to use our glasses.