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Re: Bug#531221: okular: Arbitrarily enforces DRM



On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 10:29:14PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote:
> In the USA...  Not in Germany and France.

No, sorry, that's FUD. For instance, you can always copy small part of
materials that aren't even copyrightable, for instance a sequence of
two letters. Please stop using this kind of arguments, as they are
worth nothing.

More generally, the PDF standard doesn't say that that bit is on *if
and only if* the material is somehow protected, and can't say so. I
can, for instance, create a PDF with that bit on and release its
content in the public domain (where allowed, elsewhere under a free
license).

Cheers.

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