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Thank you for point that out. You are right. Copyright laws allow authors to live off their work, but are not a guarantee — thankfully! — that they can live off their work. Actually, copyright laws are geared toward the following situation: if the market makes it possible to make money out of somebody’s work, then no one can make that money without the author’s explicit consent.
Regarding DRM, what we have to discuss is just economics. Whenever people start arguments in this context about how evil copyright is, they are flying away to a distant land.
So, back to basics. Who believes in this forum we can sell non-DRM e-books and not be swallowed by free file-sharing? That many? Great. Now think carefully about strategies to convince publishers and authors of that. And stop arguing about the metaphysics of copyright and DRM and the like. Stop using this debate to further the incoherent agenda about a dreamy digital future in which everything is free and everybody is happy.
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