Lukol Directory: Society: Issues: Business: Allegedly Unethical Firms: Adobe Systems

Gallery of Adobe Remedies
Professor David Touretzky's gallery of methods to circumvent access controls in PDF (Portable Document Format) files that prevent purchasers from making lawful use of all of their contents.
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Adobe/Gallery/

Slashdot: Adobe Threatens KIllustrator Over Name
News about Adobe demanding 2500 EUR from the developer of Linux KDE drawing program "Killustrator" for violating their trademark for Adobe Illustrator. News and discussion forum.
http://slashdot.org/articles/01/07/02/1648...

Slashdot: Adobe Responds to KIllustrator
Adobe responds to controversy, demanding that KIllustrator gets a new name, but saying they don't want to stop its distribution or development and promising that the author won't have to pay anything.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/07/1...

Planet eBook: US arrests programmer over circumvention of copyright protections
Affidavit identifies Dmitry Sklyarov copyright holder of AEBPR software.
http://www.planetebook.com/mainpage.asp?we...

Slashdot: Killustrator Author Required to Pay Two Grand
Article about Adobe's lawyers's demand that the University of Magdeburg sign their cease and desist letter, destroy kIllustrator packaging, name every KIllustrator user, and disclose the profit they made from it.
http://slashdot.org/articles/01/07/04/0132...

Sub Topics:
USA v. Dmitry Sklyarov


Related Topics:
Computers: Data Formats: Document: Publishing: PDF



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