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Originally Posted by tompe
Concerning credit card DRM. What stops you from requesting a new card with a new number and then distribute all the books you have bought with the old number?
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The credit card number was, in the eye of the law, once associated with you. The seller of the copyrighted content knows the name, billing address and expiry date that was associated with the card at the time that purchase is made.
And that itself is the major problem with this credit card number protection scheme. ANY ID, randomly assigned to your account, can be used to do an inverse lookup into the database of the customers. But content provider DOES NOT want to use just any sequence of bits.
The deviousness of the scheme is to make files "hot" and dangerous to the customer itself. Protect these files, or else...
No. It is not my business to protect their intellectual property (it is my obligation not to violate their copyrights) and I will not accept any risk pushed to me, however infinitesimally small. For what? For a
privilege to buy a book from them?