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I expect ebook piracy to jump this year as we move into a broader public acceptance of electronic reading. I don't know how these people will react to drm. Nobody likes it, but quite often you invest in a device for several years and I think most tend to stay with the company they're with. These people won't run into DRM problems the way we do with music for instance.
Additionally, books don't function like music. People listen to 3 minute songs 2 dozen times and then stop. Fiction, excepting that it's really good, is not read time and again. I don't think people will experience DRM on Ebooks very often, and as a result, ebook piracy will be much less a function of protest, and more likely just a matter of getting it now, when you want it.
The basis of exchange is essentially that two parties agree to trade one thing for another. As long as there is not force, or deception involved, the two parties are free to accept or refuse the exchange. Whatever the reasons are that one person might offer a product in a certain way is irrelevant. That's how it's being offered. If you don't want it, you're not being required to exchange. It sometimes surprises me is that the same people who wish to be protected by the freedom of exchange in that they avoid force or deception, utilize force when they find the terms of exchange don't meet their liking.
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