I have worked with e-book authors in creating systems to mitigate piracy of their books. Even if you know who gave out the book that the pirates were able to g

I have worked with e-book authors in creating systems to mitigate piracy of their books. Even if you know who gave out the book that the pirates were able to get, it doesn't make them automatically guilty. In one case, the brother of a customer was the culprit... the author was actually surprised because from the looks of the evidence, it was someone who he trusted that "leaked" the book. Sure, the person could have lied and blamed his brother, but the author trusted him enough to believe the story and accepted the apology from the brother. Anything involving DRM starts to make things get hairy. I can understand the want of the authors to protect their contents that they worked hard on producing. But I also understand how the real customers don't like DRM. In the end, DRM was ditched and a subscription model was created. Both the author and the users were happy with that resolution.