Pirating ebooksis a breeze . Their file sizes are so small that it usually deal all of 60 second between a Google search and having the book on your Kindle . Now , publishers have hit upon a solution that they hope will trip up pirate : an unseeable , trackable water line on every ebook sold .
HarperColllins and ebook distributor LibreDigital , havesigned upto use a new engineering called Guardian Watermarking for Publishing from Digimarc , a new anti - piracy technology that embed an invisible watermark into ebooks at the time of dealing . The serving is cloud - based and offers an easy - to - mix API for most ebook formats , including EPUB , PDF and MOBI . These watermarks allow publishing company to go after the reference of the leak and take necessary steps to punch the fix .
According toCNN :
Digimarc ’s anti - piracy service then crawls the web 24×7 searching for watermarked content . When a water line is find , Digimarc ply the unequalled identifier to the publishing house to match against its own transaction records . Digimarc Guardian Watermarks do not hold any personal or substance abuser information ; the Digimarc Watermarks hold only anonymous digital IDs .
It ’s of import to remember that this is n’t something likeDRM for ebooks . Indeed , the watermark itself is invisible to consumer . or else it ’s a ( rather sneaky ) way track down who exactly pirated an ebook and then probably slap a lawsuit against them .
Digimarksaysthat the watermarks are “ extremely unmanageable ” to remove . But , in our experience , that’sexactly the variety of challengepirates like . [ CNNviaSlashGear ]
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