There's more to it than that. You have to convince others to follow suit. There are far more people not on HN than there are on HN.

That's a necessary prerequisite of course, but I doubt it will cause them to stop if it doesn't scale. I.e. individuals voting with their wallets have small amount of influence. Unless you have millions of people supporting that cause, publishers who are sick with DRM won't even blink.

However, distributors who are in between end users and publishers have more influence. They voting with their wallets (by refusing to sell anything from publishers which require DRM) has way more significant impact on the publishers. That's why services like GOG are really positive game changers, while others like Netflix are making things only worse by obliging DRM sick publishers.

Amen. I harassed ebooks.com support to obtain a way to filter only DRM-free ebooks. I've bought some John Scalzi books (no DRM as per the author request, on ebooks.com; however complete, shameless disregard of the author will from b&n, amazon, etc).

Of course my main hope is that if enough people demand DRM-free ebooks, they'll give up. So the first thing is to absolutely boycott DRM-laden books. Therefore I won't post the search URL here, ask the support for it, be noisy and state you're actively boycotting DRM :)