Problems with pdf files.

[Amanda Lee]

I bet we could beat them on the technicality that as persons who are blind
seeking to enable a document to be accessible and in an alternate format
which we otherwise could not read, is this side of the law but provided one
uses the information for his or her own use and does not post it where it
can be accessed by others, then doubt there's much that would hold-up in a
court of law.

So if I have a colleague print the document and I then scan it with an OCR
program, is that illegal?  Yet I technically would have displayed the
document in another form.  So I also suppose it is illegal to magnify the
font on the screen so that a low vision person can read it?  Godf forbid!
don't change the colors on your screen such that it is easier for someone
who needs different color contrast.  So let's a bunch ofblind folks get
together and write a .pdf cracker! I'm ready to go to jail in protest!
hahahahaha!  it's tempting because this is really against the ADA and
Section 508 and against other laws.  I feel sorry for the poor slob who went
to jail.  I'd like to see where this case is documented.

Amanda Lee

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kirk Wood" <cpt.kirk at 1tree.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 7:27 PM
Subject: Re: Problems with pdf files.


> On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Steve Holmes wrote:
> > ....  Key here is
> > getting around copy-protection. I really fault Adobe systems on this
one.
> > Surely, there's gotta be a way to expose PDF text to the reader with or
> > with out a password ....
>
> There is a way. And the lead programmer recently was realeased after
> spending five months in jail without a trial. He was allowed to return to
> Rusia. If you want to find the program he wrote it is out there. But
> before some dumb ass asks, no I won't point you to it. The whole DeCSS
> trial in the states is over pointing people to a program to circumvent
> such things. I won't be lucky enough to have the EFF help with my defense
> and I know nobody here will send enough money to make up for my lost wages
> alone.
>
> =======
> Kirk Wood
> Cpt.Kirk at 1tree.net
>
> Nowlan's Theory:
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>         the next freeway exit.
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