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Originally Posted by Piper_
This is one reason why I've always thought "watermarking" (only in front and in metadata) with personal info would be a better way to prevent heavy sharing than the current DRM schemes.
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And I can promise you that tech savvy folks will easily find a way to remove such markings and release scripts for other (non-techies) to do likewise.
The beautiful thing about modern technologies is that they make freedom-restricting attempts obsolete almost as soon as they are released. Even better is the fact that corporations are heavy, slow, entities which need years and lots of $$$ to develop their freedom-restricting techniques whereas freedom-loving hackers are very fast and work for free, through a de-centralized global community
In the bad old days, even copiers in libraries were viewed as theft-inducing (in the West) or subversive (in the East). Then folks came to their senses and now this is an accepted (and enjoyed!) fact of life.
There is no stopping the free exchange of information - any information - in the global community we live in. Not legal, not technological, and not even through brainwashing and propaganda.
