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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Let's say you have a Kindle and it gets stolen. You have eBooks on there with a watermark and they get copied off and released on the net. You get them traced back to you and you get sued and have to pay the damages. Do you think that's fair? This is not carelessness on your part and it's not fair that you'd get in trouble for something someone else did.
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That's why I think watermarking won't have a lot of impact. If a watermarked book makes it to a pirate site, things might not be so clear in an actual court. What
exactly did the plaintiff do? Anyone who lost a Kindle could claim that someone must have copied the books from it. Or may be someone hacked their computer: are people legally required to password-protect their computers? It might be difficult to actually prove anything. Does anyone really want to take someone's great-aunt to court because a watermarked book she purchased wound up on a pirate site? It might be bad PR, and the great-aunt's probably going to win. Plus, it's unlikely she even heard of watermarking. If people aren't aware of DRM, how aware are they going to be of watermarking?