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Originally Posted by HarryT
You presumably accept, though, that there are valid reasons for being able to trace a car back to its owner?
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Of course, but a car is not an e-book.
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To my mind, when something can be trivially duplicated, as digital goods can, there are valid and proper reasons for being able to tie those copies to the original purchaser.
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Agreed, it's the 'best' form of DRM, but I still don't have to like it, because the fact that it's there marks me as a potential wrong-doer, and I dislike that.
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Are you aware of the hypothetical situation you describe ever having happened?
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Yes/No. One of my colleagues lost his e-reader a few weeks ago by forgetting it on a plane. What has happened to the contents is unknown.
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The fact that people do pirate digital goods is far from hypothetical; it happens every day, and there are (IMHO) compelling reasons for being able to trace the origin of such items.
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While you're right, it's not something I have to like, and I would thus remove such as a watermark, as I do with all DRM.