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Originally Posted by Wasgo
The more bother, the more it's worth in the pirate community. Then it's a badge of pride.
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I think you're confusing who the book pirates really are. The pirates themselves don't figure out ways around ebook DRM. The pirates are people who simply upload their DRM-free ebooks to torrent sites. But they don't exert any effort on their own part to do so. Most of the people who upload ebooks to torrent sites are not going to manually go through an ebook file piece by piece to see if they can be identified in any way. They won't take the chance. Watermarking will discourage many of those uploaders (pirates)—
precisely because they're lazy.
I guarantee you that most people who go to the effort of reverse-engineering DRM schemes, do so because they're opposed to the crippling forms of DRM that keep legitimate customers (including themselves) from backing up/format shifting their own purchases. And since watermarking doesn't limit a user's ability to do any of those things (in fact it barely limits them in
any way), most of those who
might be capable of doing so, won't be lifting a finger to create easy, automated ways of removing all watermarks from ebooks. Not. A. Finger.