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Originally Posted by Catlady
Another problem is that the people who actually upload the material to file-sharing sites get off scot-free, especially when they're a couple of steps removed from the original owner. How can they be traced? They really can't; all the onus is on the person who dutifully bought and paid for the book in the first place. The actual pirates don't even need to bother stripping the metadata since it doesn't lead to them.
And the owner has no defense whatsoever.
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The defense of the owner, as in most other human activities, is to use her/his brain before doing things (in this case, before giving away files). Or, alternatively, to trust no one. Or also, to choose to rely on closed (Kindle-like) systems where security and administration are managed by the publisher/vendor and the file "owner" can't give away copies. Today, the only option is the third; I would like the first one to be available, too.