Bug#531221: okular: Arbitrarily enforces DRM
Package: okular
Version: 4:4.2.2-2
Severity: normal
I'm CCing this to Debian-devel because I think it speaks to a larger
issue.
I just downloaded a PDF, and tried to copy and paste a bit of text
from it. I used the selection tool, and Okular offered to speak it to
me, but said "Copy forbidden by DRM."
pdftotext was able to convert the entire file to text format in an
instant.
So what I want to know is: why are people putting code into Debian
that limits our freedom? Why are people putting such code into KDE?
And can we please patch it to stop that?
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (99, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages okular depends on:
ii kdebase-runtime 4:4.2.2-1 runtime components from the offici
ii kdelibs5 4:4.2.2-2 core libraries for all KDE 4 appli
ii libc6 2.9-12 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libfreetype6 2.3.9-4.1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.4.0-5 GCC support library
ii libjpeg62 6b-14 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libokularcore1 4:4.2.2-2 libraries for the Okular document
ii libphonon4 4:4.3.1-1 Phonon multimedia framework for Qt
ii libpoppler-qt4-3 0.10.6-1 PDF rendering library (Qt 4 based
ii libqca2 2.0.0-4 libraries for the Qt Cryptographic
ii libqimageblitz4 1:0.0.4-4 QImageBlitz image effects library
ii libqt4-dbus 4.5.1-2 Qt 4 D-Bus module
ii libqt4-qt3support 4.5.1-2 Qt 3 compatibility library for Qt
ii libqt4-svg 4.5.1-2 Qt 4 SVG module
ii libqt4-xml 4.5.1-2 Qt 4 XML module
ii libqtcore4 4.5.1-2 Qt 4 core module
ii libqtgui4 4.5.1-2 Qt 4 GUI module
ii libspectre1 0.2.2.ds-1+b1 Library for rendering Postscript d
ii libstdc++6 4.4.0-5 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii phonon 4:4.3.1-1 metapackage for Phonon multimedia
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-13 compression library - runtime
okular recommends no packages.
Versions of packages okular suggests:
pn okular-extra-backends <none> (no description available)
ii texlive-base-bin 2007.dfsg.2-6 TeX Live: Essential binaries
pn unrar <none> (no description available)
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