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Originally Posted by eschwartz
You have a very odd definition of "everything". And I maintain that product vendors of all types, e/book or otherwise, have every right to take reasonable precautions that assume anyone *can* be a thief.
No one is assuming you *are* a thief, if that were true, you'd've been dragged off to jail on the off chance you are stealing books.
People are assuming you *can* be a thief, because... it is true.
Anyone *can* be a thief. This very simple fact underlies a great deal of the way the world works.
Take that serial number.
It can certainly be used to uniquely identify an object.
That object may or may not have been purchased with an account traceable to you.
Solution: if you are one of the paranoid nuts who obsesses about your secrecy, we get them all the time and I am totally all right with that, just so long as you are honest about it. Nothing wrong with someone living up to their values.
Some people have good reasons, e.g. living in oppressive countries. Also, I hope you uphold that mandate of privacy in all areas of your digital life -- for example, do you browse using the Tor network? Do you use full-disk encryption on your computer? Do you encrypt all your email?
Use non-identifying information to create your ebookstore account, and you cannot be traced. 
@ pdurrant, yep  I think we discussed this already, re: Harry Potter. I had to edit my copy to suit. |
You got it all wrong. I don't care about being possibility traced (the probability of that begin close to zero).
It's that watermarks, like adept protected book, reduce the value of the book for me. Even more, alf make it easier to remove adept protection than watermark.
It's that I have some lesser quality product because of some idiots. I don't want the usage of the product I paid for to be alerted / restricted