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Originally Posted by Kumabjorn
Right now I'm reading Den motvillige monarken (The Reluctant Monarch), an unauthorized biography about the Swedish King (such a slut). It was sold DRM free to me from the largest eBook retailer in Sweden, it seems they have decided to go DRM free on all titles, in its place is a watermark, stating where I bought it and what the order number was. Should this end up on someone elses eReader and be discovered, I would have no option but to confess to piracy. This seems pretty fair to me, the responsibility is now mine, not the publishers nor the retailers.
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If someone's copy of an ebook ends up on someone else's reader with the personal watermark still in place, that would not imply piracy but probably only that someone lent/gave the book to a friend or neighbour, the way they would do with a paper book.
If you wanted to pirate your private copy, you'd remove the watermark first, which can be done as easily as removing any other type of DRM.
The whole concept of DRM is flawed. It can always be removed. If a book can be read, it can always be copied in some way or another. If all else fails I could even put my ereader on my scanner and OCR the book page by page.
Publishers should stop wasting money on DRM in any form and instead make ebooks cheaper.