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Old 01-24-2026, 04:10 PM   #47
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Originally Posted by Cactus Chef View Post
Kinda reminds me of old copy protection in games that would mess with the game in non-obvious ways if it detected it was pirated. You're really only weeding out the "low-hanging fruit" of people trying to commit piracy, while the ones who do it for a living will have long figured out how to remove such obvious watermarks.

That said, I would still vastly prefer it over Amazon's cat-and-mouse DRM.
The one ePub I've looked at from Kobo is very easy to remove the SDRM. Losslessly compress all images. and remove one HTML file. That was all I needed to do. I cannot say if the metadata in the images contained any personal info, but do the lossless compression just in case.
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