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Old 12-09-2006, 12:00 PM   #63
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Originally Posted by yvanleterrible
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Some people complained that there were numerous typos and differences from original texts in the books they bought from Connect. Could they be identity tracks, like watermarks, to identify the provenance of a book in a piracy judgement?
IIRC, encyclopedia or dictionary publishers do something very much like this. They publish non-sense words and their descriptions to catch copy-and-lift pirates.
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