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> if the average person recognizes that this is wrong then it is
> enough to sustain ebooks as a business.
E-books as business (without DRM) is already shown to be sustainable. As much as Ive seen, average person is perfectly ok with paying for e-books.
Therefore there is no "if". Condition you put is already met. What remains is the question of "why" is the e-book business still blatantly anti-customer?
The answer is that the DRM insanity has nothing to do with preventing piracy at all. That would be merely stupid. What it has to do with is attempts to establish content monopolies.
If the DRM is ever to go away, it will not be because at one day we will all wake up to discover there is no more piracy around. It will be because the bastards will eventually discover that DRM doesn't work too well to make monopolies either.
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