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Originally Posted by Lynx-lynx
So how hard is it now (or soon enough) to remove the watermark?
I'm sure that for every 'new' DRM invention there will be an equally 'new' stripper, eh.
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Depends on what kind of watermark, but mostly, they're easy enough to remove from non-DRM'd books (which would be the only ones people share) by anyone who understands ebook formatting. Removing it from Mobi would involve converting to another format, looking for metadata, and re-converting.
Removing watermarks from epub should be easy. Removing them from PDFs can be a nuisance if the watermark is on every page; there may not be an automated process that'll work, but they can be manually removed with Acrobat Pro.
I don't know the details of this kind of watermarking, but mostly, it's easy to remove--but people don't, because you can open & read the books without bothering. And some people may not know ebooks are watermarked at all.