"This shocks me. Artists don't like to be limited in what they can do with their tools"......i think that statement was an over reaction.
on a side note, if we're already getting busted for walking aronud with atlases. Copying currency is definitely alot more suspicious :D
----- Original Message -----
From: Angel Stewart
To: CF-Community
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 9:14 AM
Subject: Hidden code in Adobe prevents copying money.Microsoft said no hidden 'features' in Windows.
HYPERLINK
"http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,61877,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_5"
http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,61877,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_5
"Adobe Systems acknowledged Friday it quietly added technology to the
world's best-known graphics software at the request of government
regulators and international bankers to prevent consumers from making
copies of the world's major currencies.
The unusual concession has angered scores of customers.
...
A Microsoft spokesman, Jim Desler, said the technology was not built
into versions of its dominant Windows operating system.
...
"The average consumer is never going to encounter this in their daily
use," Connor said. "It just didn't seem like something meaningful to
communicate."
Angry customers have flooded Adobe's Internet message boards with
complaints about censorship and concerns over future restrictions on
other types of images, such as copyrighted or adult material.
"I don't believe this," said Stephen M. Burns, president of the
Photoshop users group in San Diego. "This shocks me. Artists don't like
to be limited in what they can do with their tools. Let the U.S.
government or whoever is involved deal with this, but don't take the
powers of the government and place them into a commercial software
package."
"
Next step is to have the software automatically inform the FBI of a
person's personal registration details if someone tries to alter a scan
of a 100 dollar bill with Photoshop.
Or better yet, to inform Homeland Security if someone draws anything
resembling a bomb.
-Gel
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