e-junkie pdf staming feature...anyone use it?

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Hello,

e-junkie has an interesting digital rights management feature. You can enable your pdf download product to be stamped in the upper-left hand corner with the customer's name, email address, and transaction number.

I would think that would be a pretty good deterrent against unauthorized product file-sharing.

Anybody have any marketplace experience using this feature?

I don't have enough messages here yet to post a link. but if you go to e-junkie and type in pdf stamping into the search box, you will see the page.

you can also do a test print to see how it works.
#ejunkie #featureanyone #pdf #staming
  • Profile picture of the author Bane
    e-stamping is a great way to keep anyone who shares your pdf in the limelight.

    Of course, there are plenty of ways around that for those intent on stealing and sharing.
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  • Profile picture of the author Paul Barrs
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    • Profile picture of the author beginner warrior
      Thanks for the feedback on this everyone.

      I find the idea of the PDF stamping entertaining. I have this scenario envisioned that makes me laugh:

      1) customer buys pdf product
      2) customer thinks he/she is going to be a "hero" by "generously" giving your copyrighted product to the entire world for free (even though they fully expect to get paid in full for each and every hour they work at their own job)
      3) customer remembers his/her name, email, transaction number is stamped at the top of every page
      4) customer decides not to be so "generous"

      I heard of a story that says 95% of people will steal if three things are in place:
      1) there is a "perceived" need (unless your talking about life-saving medication, it's probably not a real need)
      2) they have some way of rationalizing their behavior
      3) they don't think they will get caught

      So in the context of what I described above, I imagine some sort of thought process like this:
      1) this product is good, a lot of people could use it
      2) that company must be millionaires. it doesn't hurt them since it's only making a digital copy of their product. those guys get paid too much anyway. it's not fair.
      3) there's no way they will be able to tell who emailed/copied/put their files up on the internet for free.

      I'm thinking I should start with the PDF stamping featured enabled. I could always turn it off later. The only thing is that e-junkie, to enable PDF stamping, requires you to save the file as exactly PDF version 5. Not 4, not 6, not 7, etc. I have no idea why that is. But as long as the pdf still prints nice and crisp at version 5, I don't see an issue with it. I think the later versions simply add features like being able to make comments in the margin and more advanced fill-out-forms stuff.
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