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Currency Detection Discovered in More Products
netbsd_fan writes "BUGTRAQ is reporting that anti-counterfeiting spyware is being found in more and more products. What is also interesting is that these products block fair uses of currency images which do not break the law. What incentive do printer manufacturers have to treat their customers like criminals? Is this a precursor to DRM in scanners, CD drives, and output devices?"
This is a good thing, people. This prevents Rufus T. Redneck's son from landing himself a 20-year stretch in federal prison because he thought it would be a fun idea to run off a few copies of money and use it to pay for frito pies and cow testicles and whatever the fuck else hicks eat in their squalid hovels in flyover territory. Professional counterfeiters won't use HP printers to do their counterfeiting, and anyone amateur enough to do so will be caught quickly. It's like passing a law mandating an intelligence test before a computer can be purchased.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
> Should there be an exemption for folks who have legitimate use? Sure.
Screw that, there should be an exemption for the folks who made the software. I'm not a fan of big government but if this currency detection really is just a CYA policy then perhaps a law protecting software houses from prosecution is in order. Provided said company is not "supporting" the crime in question of course (aka Napster).
We don't take gun companies to court do we? Automobile makers don't get fined when a drunk driver kills someone do they? Why should software companies be awarded the rare worry of being slapped for what their customers do?
" It's actually just a test for the true roll-out, which will prevent the reproduction and distribution of the Constitution and Bill of Rights."
I find that highly doubtful, as it would assume those initiating this roll-out were aware of the existance of a Bill of Rights to begin with, a highly dubious proposition.
Does anyone have a link to scanned currency I could test it with?