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Originally Posted by Shaggy
No it wouldn't. With digital piracy, the owner of the house and the thief are the same person. Locked doors are useless.
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You're correct. It's more like putting my picture on my drivers license to discourage me from lending it to my brother. Yes I can still counterfeit the license but is it worth it?
I don't think that anyone that is advocating watermarking thinks it's effective. Just that it's as effective as the existing DRM implementations but much less intrusive to the legal purchaser.
I think of it as trying to wean a child off of a security blanket. They might think that the blanket is keeping the boogey man away but you can't just rip it away from them. Maybe if you cut a little corner off of it and let them keep it in their pocket it will make them feel better.
The problem that I see with it is that it would probably get implemented over aggressively by using private data in the watermark instead of public. If they put public information like my name, the store I bought it from and the order number I used I would be fine with it. If they used private data like my credit card number I would have a big problem with it and would never buy it.