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To: Elfwreck
> It discourages casual sharing among non-friends.
Umm? Then I misunderstood. How then is "casual sharing among non-friends" different from piracy?
I understood differently - that "casual sharing" is basically point to point filesharing between friends and -not- seeding on a torrent network. For that, watermarking would actually work to some degree. I would be seriously deterred from sending a watermarked book to a friend unless I was -very- sure that file goes no further.
What watermarking does not do is prevent torrent seeding, or dicourage it, in any way. It removes the biggest reasons for people to -download- from torrent. Of course, publishing in plain text would do that even better. But in causing less lost sales, watermarking is better than copy protection.
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