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I think putting the purchaser's name in the text (and metadata, for anything other than plain text) would cause honest people to think twice about who they "loan" the file to, and nothing will stop the dishonest people anyway. But again, there's no challenge to cracking such a file, which I think is what the darknet runs on. People post and share content that's considered "challenging" in some way. You don't see a lot of Baen titles there. So I think this method would cut down on massive piracy as well. I don't think what's left is worth worrying about.
But that's just my opinion.
astra, I'm with PenForHire on this one, but I can respect Steve's point of view, too. I wish there were a way to have a sharing site that would ask for at least a promise by the participants that they own works in paper before downloading. It makes sense to me that people ought to be able to share the work of scanning paper books with others who own the same paper book, particularly those that aren't yet available in ebook versions and especially those that are out of print.
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