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Originally Posted by jocampo
And I keep my position. DRM schemes are not good for end users and are not actually stoping or avoiding piracy. A watermark style protection (like your name printed on each page) looks like a smarter way to me, without forcing you to keep using the same ereader all the time.
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FWIW, I can't think of a mark-each-page watermark system that works with reflowable formats like ePub and mobi. However, ebooks could be tagged with the buyer's name on a front page, next to the copyright notice: "This ebook purchased by [username, email address] from [url] on [date]." Additional watermark-ish things could be added to the metadata, and possibly chapter shifts.
That'd encourage sales (hey! customized ebooks!) and make it easy to track stupid distribution; clever people would edit the files themselves--but those tools aren't as widespread nor easy to use, and aren't likely to be.