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by webmaven 3330 days ago
It's not DRM (or even "close to it"), it's a "canary trap", or a "barium meal test". The modern equivalents in images, audio files, ebooks, etc. are usually called watermarks, even though they aren't visible (so sometimes called an "invisible watermark"), and are used extensively (including by ebook publishers that don't use DRM).