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Old 04-21-2015, 11:17 AM   #134
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Originally Posted by RobertDDL View Post
Not necessarily. Any reading device that phones home (a Kindle, an Android app, etc.) could, in theory, report the watermarks of any book read or stored on this device, couldn't it?
I suppose in theory that is true. But any reading app which does that would be an ecosystem app and those are not typically used with sideloaded books.

And unless there is considerably more unity than I think in the BWM cartel, the watermarks would only be seen by the people who made the app, as opposed to the people who designed and keep a database of the watermarks in question.

Either way, tracing through reader devices is not likely to see anything other than books purchased from the tracker. Which is silly, because they don't need watermarks to do that.
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