Thread: Harry Potter ebooks! Really!
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Old 03-27-2012, 04:25 PM   #152
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Originally Posted by KevinH View Post
Hi,

You are kidding yourself. They are indeed watermarked in many ways. You might want to check out the company booxtream to get an idea of what is going on. Remember, it need not be your name, it can be any identifiable string that can be tied back to you.

I am actually in favour of social drm like this, I wish everyone used it and removed the silly company specific DRM crap we see now.
Well, I'm not "kidding" myself -- everything I've said so far has been *just what I have found*. So please dial back the aggressive tone? Thanks.

I'm not in favor of watermarking as social DRM because I know how laughably easy it would be to hack a person's computer, grab their Calibre library, and upload it to a torrent. And I know how impossibly hard it would be to prove that it wasn't *the owner* who did the uploading.

I went ahead and bought the books because I'm very excited to read them. But I'll be watching the de-watermarking efforts with interest.
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