Amazon will make every electronic copy unique.
Amazon Corporation has registered a truly amazing patent that contradicts the fundamental fundamentals of copyright, namely, the right of the author to the immutability of his copyright text.
Amazon wants to tweak the author's text a little bit: add / remove a comma somewhere, insert a synonym somewhere, etc. Edits should be absolutely minor and not distort the meaning of the text. For example:
To exist or not to exist?
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This is done so that each copy of the author's text is slightly different from the other, then you can easily determine later which book buyers violated the rules and put it on the Web (apparently, there is such a problem).
From the point of view of mathematics, the idea of Amazon is not devoid of meaning. For example, if we replace the word with a synonym in twenty places, we will get more than a million ( 2–20 ) variants of electronic text, which is enough for the personal identification of each customer of any electronic book.
From a copyright perspective, the idea of Amazon is just awful. As we have said, this is contrary to the fundamental principles of law. In addition, it reduces the author of the book to the level of some all despised SEO-optimizer.
On the other hand, pirates can also cooperate and easily calculate those places in the text that have hidden “tags” in them and clear the text from them. Thus, they will not only hide the source of the “pirate leak”, but also make the text better, closer to the original version.
PS In the comments on Slashdot rightly noticed that Amazon did not invent a bicycle here. This trap has long been used by spies to identify the source of information leaks. It is described in espionage literature, for example, in Tom Clancy 's novel “The Game of Patriots” (1987), according to which the same-name film was shot in 1992. So another question is whether it is possible to patent such an idea.
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Amazon wants to tweak the author's text a little bit: add / remove a comma somewhere, insert a synonym somewhere, etc. Edits should be absolutely minor and not distort the meaning of the text. For example:
To exist or not to exist?
')
This is done so that each copy of the author's text is slightly different from the other, then you can easily determine later which book buyers violated the rules and put it on the Web (apparently, there is such a problem).
From the point of view of mathematics, the idea of Amazon is not devoid of meaning. For example, if we replace the word with a synonym in twenty places, we will get more than a million ( 2–20 ) variants of electronic text, which is enough for the personal identification of each customer of any electronic book.
From a copyright perspective, the idea of Amazon is just awful. As we have said, this is contrary to the fundamental principles of law. In addition, it reduces the author of the book to the level of some all despised SEO-optimizer.
On the other hand, pirates can also cooperate and easily calculate those places in the text that have hidden “tags” in them and clear the text from them. Thus, they will not only hide the source of the “pirate leak”, but also make the text better, closer to the original version.
PS In the comments on Slashdot rightly noticed that Amazon did not invent a bicycle here. This trap has long been used by spies to identify the source of information leaks. It is described in espionage literature, for example, in Tom Clancy 's novel “The Game of Patriots” (1987), according to which the same-name film was shot in 1992. So another question is whether it is possible to patent such an idea.
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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/73747/
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