Re: Watermarking through word swapping

> In
http://paidcontent.org/2013/06/14/new-ebook-drm-will-change-the-text-of-a-story-to-prevent-piracy/
>
> > Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute is working on a new ebook DRM dubbed
SiDiM that would prevent piracy by changing the actual text of a story,
swapping out words to make individualized copies that could be tracked by
the original owner of the ebook.
>
I don't like the idea of swapping text words, but I think this kind of
tracking it's on the correct path.

> > But here’s the twist: German blog Lesen.net pointed out that the book
publishers actually joined because they’re interested in finding
alternatives to the traditional lock-down approach of DRM, simply because
they’ve learned in the past that even the strongest lock can be broken.
>
Smart guys :-)

Received on Tuesday, 18 June 2013 13:50:17 UTC