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Old 01-17-2016, 08:23 PM   #19
DLSieving
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Font Licensing and Obfuscation

Thank you, eschwartz!

I'll do just that - research every font and pay as I go if needed. Hopefully I'll get license certificates whose numbers I can publish on my Copyright page to appease the suspicious.

As long as I publish with DRM, it seems to me there would be no way for anyone but Amazon to prove or disprove that my embedded fonts are obfuscated, since DRM is obfuscation on steroids. This is what makes obfuscation theatre as Kovid put it. But if the font owner requires it then I'll obfuscate anyway, so that if my book gets DRM hacked at least it will be revealed that the required obfuscation theatrics are in place.

Are you saying that DRM is also theatre? Is it that breakable? Will my book be a revenue-free sensation all over China the day after I publish it on KDP?

Weak DRM would be very costly to Amazon and so I would think it should be a very high priority for them to fix.

Dave
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