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Originally Posted by eschwartz
I m simply trying to imagine what kind of objection could possibly be made about watermarking. I haven't heard a convincing reason.
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While I'm personally quite happy with the idea of (non-visually-intrusive) watermarking, there is clearly a "reasonable" objection to it. I'm not necessarily saying I agree with the argument, but it is (IMHO) an argument that reasonable people could make.
If the purpose of watermarking is to discourage piracy by identifying the culprits and exposing them to sanctions, then the difficulty of proving that the purchaser identified by the watermark is the one who actually committed the offence means that it could be argued that the watermarking will actually achieve nothing and will even potentially run the risk of blackening the name of innocent purchasers.
/JB