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Originally Posted by JSWolf
There is no watermark in an ePub eBook that has had the DRM stripped.
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I agree with you that there is no obvious identifying information in any of the epubs I've looked at. But via the simple expedient of adding a watermark to the book cover jpeg or another jpeg in the package, a book could easily be tagged with a unique code that could be traced back to the original purchaser. Even if the booksellers aren't doing it now, they could certainly start any time.
I very much doubt anyone is doing so at this point, because it would cost something to get the software up and running, and it's not like it would do them much good. I suppose they could start suing people, but the backlash would be severe. They could cut off the accounts of people who put books on pirate sites. Those people would just sign up for new accounts under different names.
So broadly speaking it doesn't seem likely. But it's certainly possible to do.
Don