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Mogui,
Think of it like this. No amount of DRM is going to protect the author from someone who checks the book out of the library - using interlibrary loan if necessary - slaps it on an OpticBook book scanner and creates a text or pdf file from the result. Thus, for the low, low price of a used OpticBook scanner, the person who wants to get around buying DRM'd ebooks can do so to his/her heart's content. And then that person can post the ebook on IRC, bittorrent, etc. and 'share' it with the rest of the e-world.
And, given that so *many* people detest DRM, the likelihood of a person doing so rises exponentially if the book is released as an ebook *with* DRM. Oops. Readers 1, DRM 0.
Derek
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