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Old 10-17-2010, 06:54 AM   #118
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Originally Posted by bill_mchale View Post
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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If that really concerns you, you should be using a whole disk encryption system on your laptop, such as many companies use on theirs.
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