On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Victoria Hughes <[email protected]> wrote: > Any watermark or copy protection on this format?
Tory, Don't sweat it. DRM never works anyway. If anyone has (legal) access to the content, and there is a demand for it, it will end up stripped of whatever DRM or watermark you care to impose, and will be posted to piratebay or some other place. The harder you try to prevent copying or use outside of whatever walled garden you might create, the more you inconvenience your paying customers, and, well, only the first illegal users (the one that gets your content legally then removes the DRM and shares it) will even notice. Cory Doctorow has written and said a lot on this topic: This is a transcript of a talk he gave at Microsoft: http://craphound.com/msftdrm.txt Video of this talk (requires Internet Explorer and Windows Media Player): http://researchchannel.org/prog/displayevent.asp?rid=3302 Note that Doctorow is a pioneer and advocate of DRM-free publishing, as well as refusing to accept publishers "standard" copyright terms for authors, and is still a best-selling author. ~~James ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
