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Originally Posted by Barcey
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.
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I've been thinking about this myself. The site I'm thinking about will distribute books for free with reminders at the beginning and end of books, perhaps timed reminders as well about donating to the site. Since the books are available for free, I am expecting the metadata about donating to be retained as the books traverse the network.
The only reason I can think of for someone to strip out this metadata would be for mischief and you can't really stop that kind of stuff I believe.
