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Watermarking code for e-books

lundi 27 juin 2016 à 02:00

Researchers have broken a watermarking code for e-books. Here's the developers' statement.

Watermarking used as a scheme to stop people from sharing is wrong because its goal is wrong. Sharing is good, and ought to be legal. However, the scheme presupposes another injustice: making people identify themselves to buy a copy. To defend my privacy, I refuse to identify myself to a bookseller. I pay cash and only cash.