Thread: Sharing ebooks???
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Old 04-19-2011, 07:55 PM   #163
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Originally Posted by forcheville View Post
I think the answer is no.

You can check by unzipping your epub with with you favourite archiving program.
Then comb through the content and metadata files with something like XVI32. I'm told that you'll find no suspicious codes.

I have never done this myself and don't recommend it.
I actually took the trouble to do so and now I think the answer is yes, you can be traced.

Ebooks that have had the DRM removed still contain a uuid in every html file which is a unique id that can possibly be used to trace the purchaser.

Removal of metadata is a separate operation to removal of DRM.

So, while I frown on people who share de-DRM'd ebooks, I frown even more sternly on those larrakins who remove the metadata as well.
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