What an utter nonsense!
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these selfsame changes have impacted the market—the buyers—in a significant way, and they are hell-bent on taking advantage of it.
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You are ridiculing the buyers. Your contempt for your buyers is unbelievable. Most people want to pay for what they get if it is necessary (i.e. required by law). If I can get an ebook for free (legally) and it is something that I think is worth reading, I will download it. Otherwise I will buy it if the price is reasonable and it is available for my ereader.
I had great difficulties getting some ebooks: They were available only in the wrong format (Kindle for example) and could only be converted to the proper format with supposedly illegal means, or they were not available due to so called `geographic restrictions' although a paper book would be available at the same shop without a problem. Or the price was way too high. I have seen ebooks that were almost twice as expensive as the same one in paperback, with free delivery worldwide! I googled for the title and the word 'ebook' and I got mainly entries where the book could be downloaded for free, but no where I could buy it for a reasonable price. I was almost tempted to try one of these downloads and in my country it would have been allowed. I didn't because I thought the author and publisher should be paid a reasonable price.
If as an author you can't make a living it means that your books are not good enough, or your marketing sucks, or you make your potential customers unhappy. For example by putting unneeded restrictions on your product or just by treating your customers as potential criminals. The key to success in sales (and as an author you are a sales(wo)man) is to sell a quality product for a reasonable price and to make your customers happy. Sell a bad product or one that makes your customer unhappy because he has to go through hoops to use the product in a reasonable way, or make the price to high and you have a recipe for failure.
And then, there are already laws to prevent unauthorized copying. And they are already too unfair for the consumer with regard to digital stuff. So why would you need laws that are even more unfair for us readers?