Document copy protection

From: Tom Uban <uban_at_ubanproductions.com>
Date: Thu Jun 20 15:16:41 2002

At 03:01 PM 6/20/02 -0500, you wrote:
>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.....

What about a copy/paste operation?

--tom
Received on Thu Jun 20 2002 - 15:16:41 BST