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Okular and DRM
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| Jonathan Corbet wrote a piece on LWN about Okular and it's implementation of
| user permission restrictions in PDFs (sometimes errantly refered to
| as "DRM"). This is actually something it has done since it was KPDF back in
| KDE 3. Obviously, permissions in PDFs are a generally misguided attempt at
| protecting the agenda of a publisher in a demonstrably ineffective way that
| comes at a cost to things like the concepts of fair use.
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| So what's up with Okular having support for permissions? It's quite simple:
| not only is permissions in the PDF spec, but there are organizations in the
| world who, for contractual or legal reasons, require permissions in PDFs be
| respected.
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| Do we simply not serve those users needs? Do we "know better" for the user
| who says "I want to accept the terms of the publisher of this document"? Of
| course not; that's rather user unfriendly in itself.
|
| So the strategy adopted was quite simple: make it an option that the user may
| choose to abide by the permissions flags in a PDF or not.
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http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2009/06/okular-and-drm.html
Go-OO goes even further.
"DRM is the future."
--Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO
Related:
The Longest Suicide Note in History
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| On the same podcast Gutmann scotched suggestions Microsoft were held
| to ransom by Hollywood;
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| [...]
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| The genie's out of the bottle before the operating system has even
| been released! But that doesn't mean Vista users in particular - and
| the computer community at large - won't end up paying for Microsoft's
| DRM folly. At the risk of repeating myself repeating myself, yet
| another reason to move to Linux.
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http://blogs.pcworld.co.nz/pcworld/tux-love/2007/01/the_longest_suicide_note_in_hi.html
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