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Originally Posted by ApK
I think I'm finally understanding what you're saying.
You're saying:
1. Embedding personal information, either in meta-data, the cover image or what have you, and making it's presence known to to the licensee (ie. "Warning this ebook contains all sorts personal info about you and maybe even ways for us to hunt you down if you pirate it") would be as effective in preventing the casual user from letting it go in to the wild as current DRM is now. -- A wash
2. The info would be trivially easy to strip by the more savvy users...just as DRM is now. -- A wash
3. It would be cheaper to implement -- +1 for the new system.
4. It would not hinder our legitimate uses (backup, space shifting, etc) -- +1 for the new system.
Do I have it right?
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Pretty much. Some benefits to new system; no detriments compared to current system--except, of course, that it would allow casual sharing among friends & family members, which publishers seem invested in preventing.
Other bonus: anyone not-tech-savvy who distributed such a book widely could easily be found. (Or at least, the original buyer could be found.) Publishers would have the option to prosecute those people--or collect demographic info and figure out who's leaking the books to the internet at large, and try to figure out how to stop/discourage those people instead of blanket-punishing all customers.