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Originally Posted by Farhad
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.
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I don't expect it to. The point is that watermarking/tagging doesn't make the publisher any
less safe than the current DRM schemes, but it reduces the need for many of us, who just want to keep good backups, use on other devices, or share with family members or close friends who use different devices, to strip the file at all.
That makes it a better alternative, imo.
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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. 
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Oh, boy. Giggle's going to love you. LOL
I'm not going to get into this almost-religious debate, but for the record, my opinion is that when the "information" is the result of
someone else's work, it's up to them to decide whether they want to give it away or sell it.