Updated with full video – see below.

Welcome to NewsDesk on SiliconANGLE TV for Monday June 17, 2013. A new form of DRM is being developed in Germany to combat ebook piracy.  Joining us now to share more on this proposed solution is SiliconANGLE Contributing Editor John Casaretto.

See live feed below or visit youtube.com/siliconangle to watch on-demand.

The SiDiM project is a collaboration between researchers, the book industry and the Government that aims to be a consumer-friendly form of DRM with the goal of developing new protection measures for eBooks and electronic documents.  The new DRM form would essentially give every ebook its own unique set of tags, or watermarks, to make tracking pirated content back to the original pirate easier.

But why are ebooks so popular amongst pirates that they’re in need of specialized DRM systems, and is this new idea foolproof?

Here to tell us more about the implications of this new DRM format, Casaretto will share his thoughts and expectations for the SiDiM project, given that it’s automated and rather controversial.

See the live broadcast, embedded below.  If you missed today’s topic, check our YouTube channel for archived clips.