Adobe Gets Hit By DMCA

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Posted by timothy on Wednesday September 4, 2002 @06:09AM from the bizarre-consequences dept.

Reeses writes "Adobe has asked a U.S. District court to allow them to embed ITC and Monotpye fonts in their documents, claiming "Adobe has asked the court to declare that Adobe's popular Acrobat product does not violate certain provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) as claimed by ITC and Agfa Monotype." Which is interesting after the Skylarov/Elcomsoft debacle from a year or so ago. I guess they figured that it didn't apply to them since they enforced it."

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First Post! by Anonymous Coward · 2002-09-04 06:11 · Score: -1, Offtopic

haha
SP? by Anonymous Coward · 2002-09-04 06:11 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Second Post?
Fuck 'em. by Anonymous Coward · 2002-09-04 06:12 · Score: -1, Offtopic

What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
Re:What about other Adobe Products by eakthecat · 2002-09-04 06:32 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Bull.
There is such a thing as embedded fonts in web-pages. There are two formats the cross-browser (Netscape 4.x and all IEs) TrueDoc format and the Internet Explorer only OpenType (Developed jointly by Microsoft and Adobe). However, Netscape effectively killed the TrueDoc format in Netscape 6 and 7, so...
Speaking as a web developer, I'm a tad pissed at Netscape, because embedded fonts let you have more complete controll over the formatting of the web-page.
FWIW: I think there is a W3C proposal for an embedded font standard, but I'm not recalling what the current status of the proposal is.

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karma whoring for the new millennium (ot) by fishexe · 2002-09-04 06:41 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I know my karma will take a hit for this post, but...

I just had to reveal the new secret to getting modded up. Many ppl have revealed strategies for getting massive amounts of karma based on the content of your post, and I am here to tell you that NONE of them work. The only way to consistently gain karma is to have the proper /format/ to your post. And it's incredibly simple. Whatever the contents of your post are, always preface it with "I know this will get modded down to -1" or "This is going to be a big karma hit for me, but". And then, like magic, your post hits 4 or 5, insightful!

Why do such disclaimers attract such karma? Why does the underground society of monkies dominate the political landscape of the moon? These are great mysteries.

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1. Re:karma whoring for the new millennium (ot) by Anonymous Coward · 2002-09-04 06:50 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  You deserve to end up with a -1, offtopic for that one ;)
Re:Ahhhhh Karma... by sulli · 2002-09-04 06:54 · Score: 2, Offtopic

Karma: Terrible (mostly affected by your actions in the world)

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WiGftGiGftG! by Anonymous Coward · 2002-09-04 07:04 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I agree with the above post!