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Re: Bug#531221: okular: Arbitrarily enforces DRM



Am 2009-05-31 15:19:01, schrieb John Goerzen:
> 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.

In the USA...  Not in Germany and France.
Ignoring DRM let you run into touble here.  :-/

I am ongoing to install a IPTV/VOD server and have to deal with this DRM
stuff and it seems I need a million lawers to read/understand  all  this
crap.

Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening
    Michelle Konzack
    Systemadministrator
    Tamay Dogan Network
    Debian GNU/Linux Consultant

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