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I think that the point Steve was trying to make is that a legal, rigid definition of "piracy" condemns us all to lives of criminality. Not to put words in an author's mouth, but if his notion is that some "gray" piracy, for lack of a better term occurs with electronic texts--as it does with physical ones, not to mention physical music and video discs--that is not a bad thing, it is part of the system operating as it will.
Of course, one of the big problems in the debate about DRM, and the crippling software that comes with it, is that 1. the producer's stance is based on assuming apriori that the customer is a thief and 2. it is easy for the most virtuous consumer to become a thief.
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