No, you don't wind up in the same spot. Most customers aren't like you, and don't waste their time fighting DRM and anti-RE measures: they just put up with the

No, you don't wind up in the same spot. Most customers aren't like you, and don't waste their time fighting DRM and anti-RE measures: they just put up with the BS and pay through the nose for it. So the publishers profit handsomely, and the people they employ to write all that BS get paid too. The customers of all the ebooks get shafted, but they don't care about that, and they certainly don't care that they made your life harder so they could make more profit.