| The audio fingerprinting is used by services like shazam to identify music, not a per user re-encode of every single song in order to find out leaks. The watermarked music files I have come across only go as far as identifying the distribution service, not an individual. From what I remember the metadata of account information is added as an editable extended tags. I actually don't know if audiobooks are even tagged by account in audible's case, it's true for iTunes. Children will have access to free audio books in the US as long as libraries are around. I can get digital audiobooks for free from my library. Libby/Overdrive and Hoopla are great, especially for children's audiobooks. I don't know if your argument against using dedrm tools even makes sense. The point is that you shouldn't share your decrypted audiobooks. It shouldn't matter what happens to your friend's computer. More importantly, an audiobook isn't important enough to steal, that a giant leap. Dedrming an audiobook is the only way I know to make sure that one day audible won't wake up and say, no we don't want you listening to that book anymore and just take it off their platform after I have paid for it. That's not a theoretical, that's already happened to some with certain kindle books. |