Document copy protection

From: Doc <doc_at_mdrconsult.com>
Date: Thu Jun 20 15:01:52 2002

On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Sellam Ismail wrote:

> On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Arno Kletzander wrote:
>
> > Even if it's a bit complicated, this would at least allow you to print
> > the contents of those manuals the original viewer doesn't want you to.
> > Legality of such operations is another problem; I do not want to
> > encourage illegal actions. But I also don't want to see perfectly
> > repairable appliances go to the dumpster. Choose your way...
>
> As long as the viewer program can be loaded and run on your computer, it
> can be "debugged".
>
> That's what amazes me about all this silly copy protection and rights
> management nonsense. Ultimately, in order for what they are selling to be
> a product that humans will want, it has to somehow come out of our
> computer and go into our sense organs. As long as that data goes into the
> computer, it can be liberated.

  Uh, yup. My little brother is working in the IT shop for a large
company that's going bellyup. They run Lotus Notes for mail. Last
month, th Corporate Office sent out a list of depatments & teams that
were "eligible for early retirement." Odd thing - that one Notes email
could be neither printed, exported, or forwarded. Even a reply, which
appeared to quote the full text, left no quote in the "sent" folder.
I'm not sure how much trouble his bosses went to cover their tracks, but
the effect was rather impressive. The solution, though, was rather
humble.
  The "Print Screen" key.....


        Doc
Received on Thu Jun 20 2002 - 15:01:52 BST