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Old 06-27-2016, 10:06 AM   #10
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
Watermarking is (without any shadow of a doubt) a form of digital rights management. Perhaps you meant that encryption infringes on a user's rights? Even that I'm not sure I agree with. You may wish to buy a book from one store and then use it on a different device, but is it a "right" to do so?
You know perfectly well that is what I mean.

And I could argue that encryption is "rights management", but watermarking is "ownership verification".
After all, we are debating a user's "rights" to use the book on a different device, we which is blocked by encryption but not by watermarking. So is "rights" the right word to use when referring to watermarking?

As for "wish" (desire) vs. "right" -- why, yes, I am of the camp that believes it is a right, and I state what I believe.

And I believe what I believe, because the actual law is a mess of contradictions and thus impotent and incapable of providing comprehensible guidance, in addition to which the commonly-held theory of publishers upholds the pervasive idiocy that is digital special-snowflakeism.
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