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Old 06-23-2011, 04:22 PM   #58
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As straw-man arguments go, that takes the cake. Any competent watermark is going to be nothing more than a code that only identifies you when matched with the information on their servers.

Watermarking is far preferable to DRM. It's possible to do it in ways that are difficult and/or tedious to remove, but it remains to be seen how far they're going to enforce things.
And a HP database containing the personal information of all HP eBook fans wouldn't be a boon for unethical hackers?

'Course, if Sony is in charge of their firewalls, we shouldn't have anything to worry about.

I'm not going to argue about this further, mostly because I find it tiresome. Watermarking IS DRM, as far as I'm concerned, and any company who wants to keep with my personal information forever because they think I'm probably a thief can do without my money. I'll buy the books off Kobo when they come available there. I rather suspect they will eventually.
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