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Originally Posted by eschwartz
This is exactly how activists get a bad name.
Criminals don't have a right to privacy from the authorities, and watermarks don't violate your privacy unless you upload them to the public in a criminal act.
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...and if the publisher had listened to the request of the rights holder and removed the watermarks in the first place, this wouldn't have happened.
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The executor of Swartz, Sean B. Palmer, called Verso Books to remove the watermark, as it violates the privacy of the buyer, which Swartz could not accept without doubt.
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I agree with you that watermarks are the most acceptable DRM. I also understand why this was done.
In my mind, this is similar to when the Tor author pointed his readers to Alf's tools when he found out that some stores were still selling his books with DRM. (Sorry, I can't remember the author's name right now) The only difference is that the Tor author didn't have to crack the DRM himself.
Shari