What is a bit disturbing here is the trend. I don't think it's to far fetched to image the govt forcing all printer makers to restrict the precision and capabilities of their products under this same premise. After all, they did this with GPS for many years. Tom Baker Truman Prevatt <tprevatt@mindspring.com> wrote: And every time the S/W detects someone trying to open an "illegal" image it sends a message back to the Adobe mothership with your ID so it can be turned to big brother. Do any of you have all outgoing requiring your permission to send.........hmmmmmmm? Come on guys enough conspiracy nosnsense. I suspect the Adobe legal staff is worried about thier potential liability either the US Government or a foreign governemnt decided to go after them in the case of counterfeiting currency. As far as not telling anyone, no one ever said corporate lawyers were the brightest bulb when it came to comsumer relations. Besides this is getting pretty OT. Truman Editor P.O.V. Image Service wrote: > Tom Baker wrote: > > >What real difference does it make having something like this in > place? Someone printing money? > > > > > > > > I'm not particularly upset that the feature is there, though it give me > the creeps, both the US Government and Adobe have legitimate interests > at stake here.. BUT, what DOES bother me is the way we all had to find > out about it.. Adobe should have been upfront with users and informed > them about the new feature either in the press literature, advertising, > on-site info or the help file. To stick something like this in a > program and to not pre-announce or even notify anyone of the fact that > it IS there just gives people the creeps, hurts ADOBE, and gives rise to > wild conspiracy theory allegations.. It's as dumb a move as "New Coke".. > > Moreover, ADOBE is NOT the US Government, and shouldn't be in the > business of enforcing US Law. That's the role of law enforcement > authorities and government, not private industry. > > Another issue is that it prevents opening the images for uses that ARE > legal under the law.. > > Finally, the fact that ADOBE included this without notifying anyone is > troubling.. What's next, versions of PhotoShop that won't open an image > where it thinks nipples exists, unless the "owner" of the program is > over 18 years old? 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Re: [Digital BW] ADOBE PhotoShop CS is playing Big Brother... [OFFTOPIC]
2004-01-09 by Tom Baker