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Re: Is Acrobat Reader defunct?

From John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
Subject Re: Is Acrobat Reader defunct?
Date 2015-04-12 10:39 -0500
Organization Dancing Horse Hill
Message-ID <87fv85tky3.fsf@thumper.dhh.gt.org> (permalink)
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Robert Heller writes:
> One of the totally *insane* things about PDF is because it is a
> standard format with a public description of the format, *none of the
> DRM* used in PDFs is really enforceable (not even passwords /
> encryption).

And therefor it does not qualify as a technological measure that
effectively controls access to a work under USA copyright law.
-- 
John Hasler 
jhasler@newsguy.com
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI USA

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Is Acrobat Reader defunct? T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2015-04-09 19:15 -0700
  Re: Is Acrobat Reader defunct? Vilmos Soti <vilmos@soti.ca> - 2015-04-09 20:35 -0700
    Re: Is Acrobat Reader defunct? Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2015-04-09 22:14 -0700
  Re: Is Acrobat Reader defunct? William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2015-04-10 05:15 +0000
    Re: Is Acrobat Reader defunct? philo <philo@privacy.net> - 2015-04-10 04:45 -0500
    Re: Is Acrobat Reader defunct? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2015-04-10 07:20 -0500
    Re: Is Acrobat Reader defunct? T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2015-04-10 11:16 -0700
      Re: Is Acrobat Reader defunct? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2015-04-10 16:00 -0500
        Re: Is Acrobat Reader defunct? T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2015-04-10 16:01 -0700
          Re: Is Acrobat Reader defunct? T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2015-04-10 16:01 -0700
            Re: Is Acrobat Reader defunct? T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2015-04-10 16:03 -0700
              Re: Is Acrobat Reader defunct? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2015-04-10 20:31 -0500
              Re: Is Acrobat Reader defunct? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2015-04-11 21:04 -0500
                Re: Is Acrobat Reader defunct? T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2015-04-11 21:15 -0700
        Re: Is Acrobat Reader defunct? Unknown <dog@gmail.com> - 2015-04-12 01:26 +0000
          Re: Is Acrobat Reader defunct? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2015-04-11 21:04 -0500
        Re: Is Acrobat Reader defunct? T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2015-04-11 22:35 -0700
          Re: Is Acrobat Reader defunct? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2015-04-12 07:44 -0500
            Re: Is Acrobat Reader defunct? John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2015-04-12 10:39 -0500
  Re: Is Acrobat Reader defunct? ray carter <ray@zianet.com> - 2015-04-10 15:39 +0000

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