New software that automatically changes words and grammar in e-books. It sounds like a scenario that could have come straight from The Phantom Toolbooth's Dictionopolis. Researchers have created a program to catch pirates by their commas..to trap them with paragraph breaks.
The new program, still under development at the Darmstadt Technical University in Germany automatically creates subtle alternative versions of an e-book by moving words around, using synonym, or adding or removing grammatical marks, the blog Torrent Freak reports. If a pirated version of the book appears online, the publishers are able to narrow down its source by looking at which version it is. The program also creates some invisible marks to help track e-books
This is a very good program to me, since it blocking the attempt to pirates a book and which can protects copyrighted works while allowing people who have bought e-books to do some small-time sharing, such as copying the book onto all of their devices.
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| Watch That Grammar close up of an e-book on a reader device by NotFromUtercht on Wikimedia Commons
Source: popsci.com
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