Thread: "Most e-books in The Netherlands are not paid for."
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Old 02-06-2014, 08:34 PM   #51
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Originally Posted by Katsunami View Post
Actually, in The Netherlands, many retailers are ditching Adobe DRM for invisible watermarks. I'm fine with this, as I don't share my ebooks. The only real danger is in putting 500 (legal!) books on your reader, losing the device or having it stolen, after which someone else uploads the books onto the internet. Then you will be in big trouble.

Maybe you could avoid it by reporting your reader stolen ASAP or something.
That's not the only risk - people hacking into your cloud backup (or, perhaps less likely, your computer itself) is another.
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