• leanleft@lemmy.ml
    2·
    3 years ago

    the most secure private way to ensure no watermarking: extract the all the information and regenerate the document

  • Olive@lemmy.ml
    0·
    3 years ago

    I knew this wasn’t far off. As a reminder, the authors are allowed to give you the paper if you ask them for it. Don’t need to pay.

    • YouWillNeverBeAWoman@lemmy.ml
      2·
      3 years ago

      Back then, when I was still in academia, I actually put every paper I wrote and the corresponding data/code on my academic website for everyone to download. I can’t understand why this isn’t required for every (publicly funded) researcher!

    • beta_tester@lemmy.ml
      6·
      3 years ago

      If you download a paper you should know that it has a unique fingerprint. If your cloud gets hacked, and the paper released with your “signature”, it affects you.

      • Tiuku
        1·
        3 years ago

        Yeah, it should be clearly visible. E-books bought from certain shops come with a notice like “This copy was bought by Tiuku” on the first page (and probably have something like this embedded as well). When it’s done in the open like this, I think it’s a pretty fair way of doing DRM.

        • YouWillNeverBeAWoman@lemmy.ml
          1·
          3 years ago

          Is it ‚really‘ fair, though?

          When I buy a physical book, I can borrow it to others or resell it as I please without ever really having to reveal Information about myself. Why must a digital copy of the same book be forever branded with my name/account info?