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I think the fact that you are experienced is why you were so alarmed. You know what to expect usually and you got thrown a curve. An unsuspecting consumer would otherwise go with the flow to get the desired results. FileOpen is run by one guy who is obviously a programmer like yourself, and his wife chips in a bit as well I think. That's probably the reason for the URL redirects and IP silliness. It's unfortunate that because of the inherent jumping through of hoops in DRM these types of concerns are raised. The processes need to be more invisible to consumers so we don't feel like it's an intrusion. ~James __________________________________________________________________ On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 11:48:21AM +0200 or thereabouts, Max Wyss wrote: > As it has been said, the FileOpen plug-in is a legitimate plug-in for > Acrobat, and it is the client-side plug-in for the FileOpen DRM system. Uh-huh, so it should have stated explicitly what it was doing, and why. The directed to website, should also look a little "better", other than a 'user's homepage'. For example, it's quite strange that it lacked a domain. How many businessess with a webpresence, use an IP# for their domain name? Not many that I"ve ever seen. Even stranger when a 'whois' search doesn't turn of the specific network address as being registered to an entity other than "DataPipe". One want to know who is using that IP#, not who the wholesaler of commerical broadband services is. > In any case, you would have to deal with the maker of the game. > However, accusing another software vendor of spreading malware is not > necessarily a good start... If it acts like malware, then one should be suspicious. I'm not new to software development, and if this is the way DRM is going to be activated, then I suggest the producers really need to think this thing through. It's NOT consumer friendly. If originally, the site that I was directed to was Adobe's, and the attempt to install additonal software hadn't been so cryptic, I wouldn't have been alarmed. Imagine how someone, who's not quite as experienced as I, would have reacted! BTW, It's not unheard of, for virues/trojans/malware, to be transmited via CD. It has happened in the past. -- S.Allen To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdf.html
