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Originally Posted by Timboli
Seeing as you brought it up.
I was wondering if those of you who are happy to remove DRM have ever considered how easy it would be for Amazon etc to embed an ID in every ebook file that gets sent to you, at the moment it is sent? An ID that is related to you only. It could easily fail to be detected and removed when the DRM is removed.
If they did such, then they could track the movement of the ebook, whenever the device it resides on connects back to their store, during a Sync etc.
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Such a idea is in current use, Google [ DRM watermarking ]. Was it the Harry Potter books that used it ?
But the Geographical limits are set by the publisher on uploading to Amazon. They have to certify that their copyright covers them and Amazon cannot override unless their T&C allow, which is unlikely. I recall a self-publisher in Australia who posted here who had somehow managed to mark his book as available in the US or even world-wide but not Australia.