Very much Big Brother stuff but it is important that the author has the right of control
But why did pirating occur in the first place ?? Predominately because authors or their agents where too greedy
Where record producers would pay musicians peanuts or nothing, and then make a personal killing
Prices of CDs and DVDs in Australia were excessively overpriced
So these types of activities encourage certain people to steal what is not theirs and make their own big profits
Forensic watermarking is a good thing but we live in a era where there are zero controls on producers who gain a monopoly and abuse the public, simply because they can
This is true of all patents and other watermarks as well
Look at the medical industry
