You cry about DRM... No one is crying here. It's a serious issue. ...yet you offer no solution for copyright holders to protect their works. First, it's not

You cry about DRM... No one is crying here. It's a serious issue. ...yet you offer no solution for copyright holders to protect their works. First, it's not clear they need protection. In 2009 movie revenues reached an all time high, despite 2009 being the year of the pirate. Second, copyright holders can protect their works by making the legitimate version more valuable than the pirated one. DRM is an attempt to get around this basic economic reality. Valve and Apple are examples of companies that understand this. Other companies should use Steam and iTunes as the gold standard for content distribution. DRM isn't what makes Steam and iTunes successful, it's that the distribution mechanism is convenient, quick, and social. Third, it is illegal for copyright holders to protect their copyrights by taking away the rights of citizens. Copyright is not a natural right and enforcement via rights restrictions is not in the purview of private entities. The government grants and protects copyright if and only if such granting and protection "promote[s] the Progress of Science and useful Arts" [Article I, Section 8, Clause 8, the US Constitution]. It's up to the government to decide what rights can be restricted to protect copyright and if such restrictions benefit the people at large. Personally I think DRM for the purpose of copyright enforcement developed by private entities is unconstitutional. Congress and Congress alone mandates the protections on copyright. Authors wouldn't need to resort to this if mass e-book piracy didn't exist. I don't really think this statement needs refutation. Let me phrase your statement another way: "law enforcement wouldn't need to resort to wiretapping every phone in America if crime didn't exist". Don't blame Amazon for something the government has been doing for many years. Well first of all it was a hypothetical. But I can and will blame companies for such behavior. Do you know how much money Cisco made from the Great Firewall? Companies that enable human rights violations share some responsibility. I'll blame the construction companies that provided materials to build the concentration camps too. Note that I'm not against other systems of government, just systems of government that systematically violate the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (of which the US is an author and signatory). I don't think US companies should do business with such governments.