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I don't have tremendous irrational objections to watermarking.
I have some objections, but they are rationals thank you, and certainly not strong since watermarking is usually harmless (not always).
You claiming that we are being treated as potential thieves in all areas of life is irrational to me. Not that you are technically wrong, but it's not a dichotomy as there is a spectrum. For a watermark to work, your identity must resides either in the ebook itself or in the vendor's database (the identifier in the ebook is then not your identity, but an indirection to the identity in the vendor database). When I buy something in a store, I can use cash (anonymous for petty things like books) or a bank card (not really anonymous but it's a third party that has my identity: the bank). I'm merely highlightning so you understand.
Have you considered that maybe watermarking haters, which I am not (I do not hold strong emotion about it), use this argument because it holds some valid ramifications in it? Of course stealing a computer for ebooks is a severe strech, but it gets the point across if you are able to infer and think a little by yourself.
Financial information is not stored in the computer the same way ebooks are.
Plus, it's again a false dichotomy. Of course someone could prefer target financial data, but it's not exclusive.
If one could harm somebody by leaking his ebook collection, it would be done. It doesn't happen because it's not effective, which is my point. But if it were, it would happen so don't weakly brush the point.
I am not paranoid. I'm merely hypothesing and I'm not acting on it. You are highly insulting. Are you unable to think abstractly??
And yeah if occurences of my books were found in the internet, I guess my account would be banned, but what would prevent me from registering another account?
This security scheme is very dependent on having access to valid identity data. You said how we were always treated like thieves, and that I was paranoid, but I do buy stuff on the internet sometimes, and most of the webstores don't care.
Please do not engage me any further if it's to be condescending like that, while bringing nothing to the discussion.
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