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Without copyright protection for content producers, there is no commercial incentive to create content. Amateur writing is all well and good, and bravo to those who do write for the love of it, but if you want professional authors to carry on writing, there has to be an effective mechanism in place to allow those authors the opportunity to make a fair return from their work.
DRM is not inherently bad - most of us, for example, accept without complaint the DRM which is present on DVDs, and the reason for that is that all DVD players will play such DVDs. What is needed is an effective DRM mechanism for eBooks that is a universal standard, and does not impede customers from making reasonable use of their books.
Much as I'd like to see the abolition of DRM, I honestly believe that's an unrealistic goal.
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