Since the feature is designed to keep ya from steallin', why would they?
BC
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From: Editor P.O.V. Image Service [mailto:editor@...]
Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 12:19 AM
To: Digital B&W
Subject: [Digital BW] [OT] ADOBE's Response
What follows is Dan Margulis's report of ADOBE's response. To cut to the
chase: Of course they've failed completely to answer the all important
question of why they gave no a priori notice of the new "feature."
"
Folks,
The following was posted at Adobeforums this evening by Kevin Connor, a
prominent member of the Photoshop team, in response to the concerns
expressed over the anticounterfeiting technology incorporated in Photoshop
CS.
Dan Margulis
_______________________
As someone at Adobe who was involved in the decision to include
counterfeit
deterrence in Photoshop CS, let me finally provide you with a response
to all
of these concerns and questions. Sorry for the delay!:
Photoshop CS does indeed include a counterfeit deterrence system (CDS) to
prevent the illegal duplication of banknotes. The CDS was created by a
consortium of central banks from around the world. We, along with other
hardware and software manufacturers, have included CDS in our products at
their request to address the threat posed by the use of digital
technologies in
the counterfeiting of banknotes. There are other software products from
other
companies that already use this same technology. There are also hardware
products that use the same or similar technology. For example, most color
copiers sold today will not allow you to copy currency.
As digital imaging technology advances, becoming more broadly available
and user friendly, the old barriers to currency reproduction are
becoming less
effective. The unscrupulous are taking advantage of the functionality
that is
being provided to the vast majority of honest users for the purposes of
counterfeiting currency. In the US and around the world, counterfeiting
through digital means is increasing exponentially, and retailers and the
general public--including our own customers--are at risk.
Counterfeit currency is essentially a hot potato. Whoever holds it last,
loses.
The person who loses isn't necessarily the counterfeiter. There's no
government body in place to "reimburse" people who, through no fault of
their
own, get paid with currency that turns out to be counterfeit. In our
implementation of CDS, we've worked very hard to balance the need to
protect these unsuspecting victims of counterfeiting along with the need
to
continue to provide a product that efficiently does what honest customers
need it to do.
There appear to be several major concerns and objections repeated
throughout this message thread, so I'll try to address each one
individually:
1. Performance: CDS does not cause any noticeable slowdown in Photoshop
performance. During most operations performed in Photoshop, CDS is not
used at all. When it is used, the performance impact often is just a
fraction of a
second.
2. Legal use of notes: It is true that the current implementation of CDS
will
prevent you from scanning in your own banknotes even if your usage
intent is
entirely within legal boundaries. Regulations for using banknote images
vary
by country. It is the responsibility of the central bank in each country
to provide
images that can be used within the legal guidelines of that country. In
other
words, if you want to legally reproduce images of the new $20US bills on a
Web site or in a marketing brochure, you can contact the U.S. Bureau of
Engraving and Printing for legal images that can be opened and manipulated
in Photoshop CS. (You can visit them at www.moneyfactory.com.) Similar
solutions should be available in other countries. If you find that your
central
bank is not providing adequate support to permit legal uses of their
banknote
images, then you should let them know.
3. Adobe's intentions: Please be assured that this implementation of CDS
is
not a step down the road towards Adobe becoming "Big Brother." We know
that one of the reasons people love Photoshop is because it's an
incredibly
flexible tool that can be used for so many different things. That's also
one of
the reasons we at Adobe enjoy working on new versions. Finding ways to
prevent you from doing things in Photoshop really doesn't interest us!
Moreover, the CDS is not Adobe technology, but was provided by the central
banks, who would have no reason to want to restrict anything other than
bank
notes. Counterfeiting is really a special case in which we could see how
our
own technology advances were making it easier to commit crimes and we
were asked to implement a solution that would have minimal impact on
honest customers. Yes, there is some impact, in that you need to contact
your
central bank for images, but our hope is that it's not a huge
inconvenience for
that small group of customers who do need to reproduce these images in
their
graphic design work. It also provides the central banks with an
opportunity to
better educate customers on exactly what is and isn't legal usage.
Of course, CDS in Photoshop CS is essentially a 1.0 implementation of a
feature, analogous to the state of the layers palette in Photoshop 3.0. We
realize that there may be room for improvement, particularly if there
are corner
usage cases that weren't taken into account in our current designs. We do
want to hear about your concerns, and we definitely want to hear if
there's a
specific problem that this implementation has created for you. As with any
Photoshop feature, we depend on hearing from customers so that we can
make continual improvements release after release. "
Keith Krebs
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RE: [Digital BW] [OT] ADOBE's Response
2004-01-09 by Billy Cobb