Protecting PDF files

Tristan Wibberley maihem at maihem.org
Sun Dec 11 15:42:48 UTC 2005


Wade Smart wrote:
> 12112005 0909 GMT-5
> 
> Doesnt Adobe have a piece of code they use to keep you from coping a
> pdf? I could be totally off here but in a Microsoft conference about a
> year ago a Adobe guy said they had options that would or could detect if
> a pdf was being copied and would no longer allow you to open the second
> and third and on ones.

Only if you open it in their viewer, so either I can't open it on my PC
at all, or it can be copied ad infinitum. DRM is futile, the good don't
get the service or goods they expect, yet the crims can keep on crimming.

-- 
Tristan Wibberley





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