Well, this is one way to do it: Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute is working on a new ebook DRM dubbed SiDiM that would prevent piracy by changing the actual text of a story, swapping out words to make individualized copies that could be tracked by the original owner of the ebook.
Reports about the work first popped up on German blogs…
What a genius idea! I really do love how things just keep evolving, the constant battle between the copyright laws and pirates.