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Originally Posted by Lemurion
As far as I know, the truth is NOTHING will deter anyone who just wants to take your stuff.
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That's not quite correct: a high risk of being caught is a good, and in fact the only known effective, deterrent. Which suggests a completely different approach to preventing piracy: watermarking each file you sell to someone, be it an mp3 or an e-book, with the identity of the buyer. This works reasonably well with music, AFAIK. I'm not quite sure how you'd implement effective watermarking (i.e. one that is hard or impossible to remove) on a text file, though.