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Originally Posted by Phogg
Absolutely the VIN on your car is tied to your name through the registration and anyone who runs an insurance history of the car will see when you owned it long after you sold it.
If you fill out the waranty paperwork on your appliances or what have you, those create a paper trail.
And we havent even touched what happens if you purchase prescribed medications.
Compared to other things already in your life, a watermark is pretty innocuous.
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True, but for me at least, this is less about "living off the grid" and more about not signing up to be responsible to anything that might happen to a single computer file carried across multiple unsecure devices.
The watermark represents potential litigation down the line if something happens to that file. Computer files are stolen all the time, but it's very very very difficult to prove that YOU didn't do whatever illegal thing was done with the file (i.e., loaded it up to a torrent site).
The point of these watermarks -- according to the press release -- is to prevent piracy. It's not a fuzzy "oh, look, this book is Ana's book!" stamp to personalize it. It's supposedly so that if that book goes up on torrent, they can track you down and exact punishment.
Until there's a way to prove our innocence in a case like that, I'm skeptical about submitting to TOS that essentially says that I will take responsibility for the entire life of a computer file.
If a crime is committed with my car, I can pretty easily prove that I wasn't in it at the time of the crime, because I always have an alibi in the form of Husband, friends, computer activity logs showing me at home. If a crime is committed with my computer file, I can't easily prove I didn't do it.
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Never a coffee-break, though?  |
LOL. If it helps set the scene, Husband (who works at the same company as I) won't even use Dropbox because someone could, potentially, brute-force your eLibrary file name.
In my "library in the cloud" tutorial instructions, I actually encourage people to use GUIDs on their Dropbox folder names.
The Dropbox fiasco I linked to was a bit of a "told you so" moment at our house, because a GUID protection is worthless if all someone needs is your email address. *sigh* Maybe I should update my Dropbox instructions to include using a GUID-based email address, too.
So I'm actually the lesser paranoid one.