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Originally Posted by sianon
I recently purchased a book from Pan Macmillan which was DRM free but placed th following text in the downloaded file:
Order Ref: Karen Sutherland [karensutherland@optushome.com.au] Downloaded: 10 September This is copyrighted material.
Perfectly acceptable Social DRM as far as I am concerned.
Karen
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I agree. The goal of the digital rights management should be to identify if it's a legal copy or not. It shouldn't be to try to enforce the DRM i.e. where and when you can copy it (because you'll never be able to) or try to destroy/disable the file.
Update the copyright to indicate that if you tamper with the purchase information in the file you've violated the copyright and it's an illegal copy. It would be easy to update the software to indicate to the person reading the book who purchased the file so they can't claim they didn't know.