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Adobe Finds No Elcomsoft-Cracked E-Books
dJCL writes "I noticed at BlackMask.com that the Adobe investigators have found not a single e-book that was decrypted by Elcomsoft's Advanced e-Book Processor, even despite the months of intensive searching of around 100,000 pirated e-books that they could find(i.e. something else was used to crack them). Just love how the laws have been able to stop people from pirating things these days."
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There are laws that try to stop pirating?
I think my principles are reachin' an all time low
Not to give them any ideas, but if the RIAA were in a similar situation, they'd probably hire three kids for minimum wage to sit and pirate as much e-books as they could.
You got it wrong. Instead, it just proves that corporations are as dumb as warez communities think they are.
Especially if their excuses were:
;^)
We just needed it for research! It's just for personal use! We have a right to privacy with our own files! We deleted it within 24 hours - so it's legal! It didn't hurt anyone - we weren't going to be buying the book anyway! Mentioning them in our lawsuit is like free advertising! Potentially infringing material wants to be free!
Ryan Fenton
Yep, just like it's okay to steal a car as long as you don't drive it.
The temperature at which eBooks melt.
I'll form my OWN solar system! With blackjack! And hookers!
Just wondering which P2P program that Adobe is using to download that many ebooks
Poor Adobe came up empty-handed. Maybe they'll have more success searching for Sasquatch, or the Lochness Monster, or The Second Coming, ....
You can't do that. I've patented the take-a-screenshot-of-the-screen-ebook-piracy method I've also patented copying-ebooks-by-recording-s-video-out-onto-analo gue videotape and copying-ebooks-by-using-a-pencil-and-paper-and-wri ting-quickly
Knowing some off-color uses that people use socks for makes that comment more disturbing than it originally seems...
Yep, just like it's okay to steal a car
It's OK with me if you steal my car if it's still parked in front of my house and I can still use it.
That's why intellectual property is property, because it's gone when someone else gets it.
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- - You can't take something off the Internet! That's like trying to take pee out of a swimming pool.
I've-already-patented-the-excessive-use-of-hyphens
You'll-be-hearing-from-my-lawyer.
Just looked this up. Apparently, the laws were changed not to long ago (60s-70s). But counseling someone to commit suicide (which your post does) is still illegal in Canada (don't know about the US) and other countries. So your post could very well be illegal :)
A deep unwavering belief is a sure sign you're missing something...
suicide was legal but bungee jumping was illegal. I can only jump if I don't attach the safety harness.
[Defense lawyer opening statement]
Ladies and Gentlemen of the jury, at the time of this alleged 'crime' the defendant believed he had successfully disconnected his safety harness...
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- - You can't take something off the Internet! That's like trying to take pee out of a swimming pool.
And if it's true, what are the damages then?!?! That's fair use! WTF!
;)] Russia, fair use and freedom still exist.
Maybe not in the U.S. (DMCA), however in [Soviet
Heh, it'd be funny if this post slipped through a time warp back to 1985...
That is funny but seriously a VCR records analog which is legal to use
Of course. If they wanted VCRs to be illegal, they'd've called it the Analog Millenium Copyright Act...
-JDF