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Originally Posted by HarryT
It clearly makes the software which decrypts the book "weightier", but I don't believe it adds any overhead to the book itself. Most encryption methods simply substitute one character for another; they don't, generally speaking, change the number of characters in the text.
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9/30/2006 19:05 527,861 ma.lit
527,861 bytes in 1 file and 0 dirs 528,384 bytes allocated
10/04/2007 0:05 518,083 ma2.lit
518,083 bytes in 1 file and 0 dirs 520,192 bytes allocated
With and without DRM for the same book. Not only is the DRM laden file larger but it takes more physical hard drive space. So I do think laden is a good word to use. While it may not make the text of the book any different, DRM does effect the container the book is in.
One definition of laden which fits perfectly...
to put (something) on or in, as a burden. And I do think most of us feel DRM is a burden.