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Originally Posted by bill_mchale
To protect yourself. Lets say for example you store all your books on your laptop. Your laptop is then stolen and the person who steals it decides to upload all your ebooks to the torrents. Since said person has no incentive to strip the watermark, the copyright holders could decide you were responsible and sue you for violating copyright and then you would have to prove you didn't do it... not exactly an easy thing to do.
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Bill
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Bill, what you say is true, but I for one find it farfetched. If I'd be that paranoid I could always go to lengths to make my laptop unusable should it get stolen.
A representative of the German ebook market stated that since they started with watermarking and removing the DRM, they haven't had one case of piracy.
But thoughts arise about the whole idea of stealing. And stealing digital and copyrighted material.
As you say, the person stealing the laptop probably hasn't an incentive to remove the watermark, but the theft
and the uploading is a different matter. There obviously is some kind of incentive to do that. But what?
What makes a person do things like these? I've always wondered why someone would buy(!) a picture, movie, song, album and now ebook and then copy it and upload it to strangers
Or scan a paperbook (imagine the work behind such an act) and then upload the digital version of it.
I guess people like this leads such poor social lives and by doing this they hope to get some kind of recognition.
"Hey, look at me - I'm a loser - but if a go to a lot of trouble and give you, bribe you, with these digital baubles - will you accept me or even like me?"
When thieves get their hands on physical goods, money, jewelry and such, they usually don't give that away. Or do they? Maybe all thieves are like that - looking for acceptance by bribing.
Just some thoughts about stealing.
Take care,
Mange