Chain, Chest, Curse: Combating Book Theft in Medieval Times
http://medievalbooks.nl/2015/07/10/c...edieval-times/
In addition to the practical physical protection afforded by chains and book chests, curses offered a more ethereal form of "DRM".
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Considering these two practical theft-prevention techniques – chaining your books to something unmovable or putting them into a safe – the third seems kind of odd: to write a curse against book thieves inside the book. Your typical curse (or anathema) simply stated that the thief would be cursed...
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Try putting this in the next book you want to protect from theft or piracy:
“If anyone should steal it, let him know that on the Day of Judgement the most sainted martyr himself will be the accuser against him before the face of our Lord Jesus Christ”