Re: Xpdf fuckware
On Sun, 11 Mar 2001, Adam Langley wrote:
> The PDF fuckware (Futile Unnatural Control Keeping Ware, credit to
> Oskar Sandberg for that) is on the same road as DVD CSS and HDTV. A
> desperate and destructive attempt to enforce copyrights in a world
> where they no longer make sense.
Regardless of that, I don't think one should simply remove the restriction.
IMHO, the patch should, as others said, pop-up a window notifying the user
that the autor of the document requests that such an operation should not be
done, and that proceeding with the operation anyway might be in violation of
copyright rights.
--
"One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
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