Looking for social drm solutions providers for epubs?
September 24, 2012 3:27 AM Subscribe
Looking for Social DRM solutions/prorgram providers for epubs.
I am looking for companies/professionals providing softwares/solutions for embedding a Social DRM in epubs. Could you direct me to some providers?
I am looking for companies/professionals providing softwares/solutions for embedding a Social DRM in epubs. Could you direct me to some providers?
epubs are just zipped html. It would be extremely trivial to strip your watermark out.
posted by wongcorgi at 9:31 AM on September 24, 2012
posted by wongcorgi at 9:31 AM on September 24, 2012
I guess my question would be WHY do you want it DRM'd?
It could be a pain in the ass solution to a relatively unremarkable concern.
posted by THAT William Mize at 9:51 AM on September 24, 2012
It could be a pain in the ass solution to a relatively unremarkable concern.
posted by THAT William Mize at 9:51 AM on September 24, 2012
Response by poster: Well, the short answer is ..pure dissuasion, but there's some creative idea I have in mind (who will not prevent copying, nothing really can't prevent t1hat 00% of the times), but I would like to have some more information on existing providers first.
posted by elpapacito at 12:44 PM on September 24, 2012
posted by elpapacito at 12:44 PM on September 24, 2012
Response by poster: b1tr0t: social drm is pure applied dissuasion with a hint of lemon and bytes here and there...what i'd like to avoid is being tied to a specific drm scheme and/or be forced to adopt almost any drm scheme in existance, in an attempt to deal with a very diverse customer base..
posted by elpapacito at 5:40 PM on September 24, 2012
posted by elpapacito at 5:40 PM on September 24, 2012
As someone who's published on Barnes and Noble, Amazon, Smashwords and others, I can say that @b1tr0t pretty much has it correct.
Each publisher or vendor has their own version of DRM that prevents the ebook in question to be shared or copied or read with another reader.
I've never heard of any type of global DRM that goes across all readers, vendors and platforms.
The only thing I can vaguely think of would be a password protected PDF.
No password, no open.
Maybe there are programs that allow you to assign a user specific password, perhaps computer generated, to a specific PDF. That would be similar to a watermark with the buyer's name, but perhaps again, overkill.
posted by THAT William Mize at 4:50 AM on September 25, 2012
Each publisher or vendor has their own version of DRM that prevents the ebook in question to be shared or copied or read with another reader.
I've never heard of any type of global DRM that goes across all readers, vendors and platforms.
The only thing I can vaguely think of would be a password protected PDF.
No password, no open.
Maybe there are programs that allow you to assign a user specific password, perhaps computer generated, to a specific PDF. That would be similar to a watermark with the buyer's name, but perhaps again, overkill.
posted by THAT William Mize at 4:50 AM on September 25, 2012
Response by poster: b1tr0t/William Mize: to answer to bitroot, what i need is a prepared script that will fetch data passed by a merchant servers, embed the data into the epub as I please and that could manipulate epub as i please as well..basically, a regex + perl. But, as I am still not competent enough with perl to di itmyself in a resonably short time.
As for DRM, we all know DRM aren't that effective...or do we? Imho, to say the DRM isn't effective because it's "easily" circumvented is an overstatement..it's plenty effective if you don't want/don't know how to go around it.
posted by elpapacito at 6:08 AM on September 25, 2012
As for DRM, we all know DRM aren't that effective...or do we? Imho, to say the DRM isn't effective because it's "easily" circumvented is an overstatement..it's plenty effective if you don't want/don't know how to go around it.
posted by elpapacito at 6:08 AM on September 25, 2012
Response by poster: b1tr0t: yes, you are absolutely correct b1tr0t, in itself it's not as difficult, for instance, as developing a crypto algo from scratch.
posted by elpapacito at 3:28 AM on September 26, 2012
posted by elpapacito at 3:28 AM on September 26, 2012
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