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<blockquote data-quote="Lonely Tylenol" data-source="post: 3869346" data-attributes="member: 18549">It will be on BitTorrent the next day.&nbsp; There's no reason to even worry about certainties like that.&nbsp; However, having a watermark or something else that identifies the owner will stop Joe Gamer from just idly sticking it into his file sharing directory. That's pretty much what I thought.&nbsp; If you can send in a photocopy of the page with the code, or email a digital camera photo of the page, that's pretty good proof you have the book.&nbsp; Proof enough, at any rate.&nbsp; Then there's fraud investigation on the other end.Given that DRM causes general unhappiness among the user base, has the problem that it can eventually fail to work, doesn't work with alternative PDF viewers, doesn't always migrate well, and utterly fails to prevent piracy, I don't see why you're even considering it.&nbsp; DriveThruRPG started on a DRM-PDF delivery system and abandoned it because it inconvenienced their customers and their PDFs were showing up on p2p somehow mysteriously DRM-free.&nbsp; It cost them money to implement, but wasn't slowing down piracy.&nbsp; It was just turning their product into crippleware.Watermarking works just fine to prevent casual piracy, and nothing will prevent non-casual piracy.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lonely Tylenol, post: 3869346, member: 18549"] It will be on BitTorrent the next day. There's no reason to even worry about certainties like that. However, having a watermark or something else that identifies the owner will stop Joe Gamer from just idly sticking it into his file sharing directory. That's pretty much what I thought. If you can send in a photocopy of the page with the code, or email a digital camera photo of the page, that's pretty good proof you have the book. Proof enough, at any rate. Then there's fraud investigation on the other end. Given that DRM causes general unhappiness among the user base, has the problem that it can eventually fail to work, doesn't work with alternative PDF viewers, doesn't always migrate well, and utterly fails to prevent piracy, I don't see why you're even considering it. DriveThruRPG started on a DRM-PDF delivery system and abandoned it because it inconvenienced their customers and their PDFs were showing up on p2p somehow mysteriously DRM-free. It cost them money to implement, but wasn't slowing down piracy. It was just turning their product into crippleware. Watermarking works just fine to prevent casual piracy, and nothing will prevent non-casual piracy. [/QUOTE]

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