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Originally Posted by barryem
Sharing books with friends and family is a good thing and some silly paranoid and unenforceable law doesn't change that for me. It's what civilized people do.
Barry
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I noticed this news at another internet site:
"A new DRM technology is being developed in Germany that gives every ebook a unique watermark of sorts, so that publishers can track them and see who is pirating copies. With the popularity of ereaders and ebooks on the rise, publishers are looking for new ways to combat the rise in piracy on ebooks, especially expensive ones.
The DRM essentially alters words, punctuation, and other text elements in ebooks so that every copy is unique in some way. This means that copies can be traced back to the people who bought and pirated them, making it easier to catch wrong-doers and cut down on ebook piracy in the long run, or at least that's what publishers are hoping for.
While the storyline of an ebook would remain intact, the DRM would change some words around, as well as insert synonyms, change the paragraph format, or alter the punctuation just a tad. A good example is that some copies could come with "don't" instead of "do not," or "that's so pathetic" instead of "that's pathetic.""
Thus, "unenforceable" may be soon replaced by ENFORCEABLE.
Back in 2003 those stripping DRM from music files, sharing with friends and having the friends upload to pirate sites, were shocked when the first 875 subpoenas were received by private individuals. Supposedly the technology then could not enforce those copyrights either.