Thread: New DRM method changes the author's words to make each copy unique and traceable
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Old 06-22-2013, 05:51 PM   #63
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Originally Posted by BeccaPrice View Post
FRankly, the book keeping aspects of this seem appalling, particularly when we're talking best sellers - who keeps the data base of which purchaser has which minor nit changed?
It only requires associating a single number with all the changes.

Suppose 30 paragraphs have or do not have a blank space character following the last period. Each paragraph is assigned a number n between 0 and 29. If the nth paragraph does not have a trailing blank, its value is 0, if it does, the value is 2 to the nth power. The single serial number for the book is the sum of all the paragraph values.

This is trivial for big e-tailers. BPH might have trouble getting retailers to report the number, but that is a problem other than accounting.
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