Re: Bug#531221: okular: Arbitrarily enforces DRM
Michelle Konzack wrote:
> Am 2009-05-31 09:05:10, schrieb John Goerzen:
>> Could you share your reasoning with us, specifically why you don't like
>> each of the four options I mentioned? (Reproduced below)
>>
>> 1) Remove the DRM feature entirely
>
> And IF proples want o knoiw, whether a PDF was DRM'ed?
>
>> 2) Patch the default to have it disabled
>
> This let peoples in the assumption, the PDF can legaly copied even if it
> is not
This has nothing to do with that. This is a bit flag, and has nothing
to do with the legality of copying some or all of the PDF. It is
*always* legal, in the United States at least, to excerpt small parts of
a document. This holds whether or not the author set this flag. It
holds whether you copied and pasted, retyped, or photocopied.
Also, I think it is silly to assert that it would ever be illegal to run
cp on a PDF on one's own disk. If it's legal to cp it, then it is legal
to convert it to text format.
-- John
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