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Incidentally, one other thing I've been nerving myself up to do is to contact the authors in question and tell them that they are losing sales because of the DRM nonsense. In one particular case, I own pretty much every book the author wrote, in trade paperback. I bought 5 of his e-books, at $5.95 a pop, because I love his books and I wanted to have them in electronic form. Because those DRM'd books are now unreadable, I will not be buying any more of his e-books. His publisher's misguided policies on DRM are causing him to lose sales to a very devoted fan of his work.
Note, incidentally, that at least according to the very cursory legal research I have done on the subject, scanning a paper copy of a book for personal use would most likely be considered fair use, and would not violate the DMCA. So, the way the law is set up, it makes more sense for me to pay nothing for an e-book and make my own by scanning/OCR than to pay $5.95 for an e-book and then break the encryption. In the former situation, I can argue fair use; in the latter situation, I violate the law merely by breaking the encryption, and fair use does not matter at all.
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