Sure this is capitalism...Mob style.
Yet, I understand their argument when it comes to property rights.
Just like the music Cd's that you can borrow from the library. When it comes to modern technology, it allows you to make a copy and keep it. If everyone went to the library and borrowed and copied books and Cd's and DVDs, then there would be no need for record stores, book stores, video rental stores, or DVD stores. Heck people could even stop going to the movies and just wait until it comes to the public library and then make copies for all their friends.
When you buy technology, being able to use that technology how ever you want is one thing. But when it comes to the property right of the creative content. It needs to be protected, or else they will stop making it. You buy the rights to use the E-reader, not the right to all the books ever written.
As someone who is in the creative content business, let me tell you. This is a really strange conundrum. Because on one side we don't want everyone copying our stuff and not making any money on it, yet on the other side we don't like the studio executives and hardware manufactures of things like the IPad to make any money of our stuff either. Nowadays studios will take something and copy it so they don't have to pay for it , then it gets sent over seas and copied to supplant a whole new market. And the creator is lucky if he makes any kind of profit.