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Originally Posted by Katsunami
It can never work. A document that is on the reader can be entirely legal, such as a converted book bought in a different format. Even if a company would check (using Wifi / internet) if you bought the book you just opened with them, that doesn't mean anything; the book could still be legal.
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In both USA and Canada, if I am not mistaken, there are but a few legal exceptions to the "DRM is sacred" rule. DRM removal is illegal, almost always. If a publisher was to, say, watermark, in addition to DRM, a book, you end up with a product where discovery of DRM removal is automated (the book has watermark, it is not DRM-ed).
I am playing a devil's advocate when I say that I can see why they would attempt to attack the piracy both at the destination (end user of pirated content) and on the source (persecution of those who remove the DRM and distribute the content).
"Dear user, the file that you attempted to open on your reader had DRM removed, and your reader has been locked until you either:
- Call our 1-800 number, or
- purchase a copy from our store."