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Originally Posted by spindlegirl
I agree. It's but a small minority of people who go, "oh goody a book! I must upload this to my zillion friends!".
I like buying stuff where there is no complication. Watermark wouldn't affect me at all because it contains ZERO of the reasons I vehemently dislike encrypted DRM (for things I purchase personally). But yes, having no watermark at all would be ideal for my utopia. The principle being, that I, as a customer, am by default trusted to keep my product for personal use.
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It seems to me that the watermark would provide no real benefit to publishers and authors--I can't see that people who are inclined to upload books would stop because of it; they'll find a way around it, or they'll use fake accounts, or they won't much care. And it might be more of a privacy issue than DRM for the consumer.
Let's say that an author finds that Peter Pirate has been uploading the author's books. How is the author going to track down this guy without further identifying information? There might be a number of people with that name. And if there is further identifying information, isn't that a potential privacy concern?
Aren't some sort of usernames attached to the torrent uploads and shared files now? Can't someone whose copyright has been infringed attempt to track down information on who is behind those names now?