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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
Someone would strip it apart, find out where the personal details are kept, then create a tool that will remove them for everyone (or display them for people with an interest in such things, especially if they contain credit card details). Anything like that would be useless without a corresponding law to stop people from removing it.
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Yes some people would strip the file apart and remove everything that isn't text and search for anything that looks like it could be a GUID and remove it, but how many people would bother. You can't stop people from violating copyright and some people will chose to do it. The goal should be to maintain a viable marketplace for selling digital goods, it shouldn't be to control to the n'th degree what people do with the product after they paid for it. Security is about placing the appropriate level of a control in place.
I agree that this type of social rights management would probably fail because some companies would try to include personal information in the file (like credit card numbers). When they did that then people would spend the effort to remove the information because there is a chance it will get lost or stolen.