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Watermarks are likely to be not-very-useful if they're not visible to the end user. Well. Not useful in the "prevent unauthorized copies" sense. If there's no visible watermark, someone will blithely upload the files to torrents & filesharing sites, and Rowling will be within her rights to track down & sue that person--but the files will already be spreading.
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Sounds like an irrefutable argument for a visible watermark. Hopefully, it will give people pause before they email it to all their friends. Now, will it work like that? Well, let's hope.
If it doesn't, Rowling may not bother running around suing people-she might just shut down the whole ebook thing.