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Currency Detection Discovered in More Products

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the plot-thickens dept.

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?"

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  1. Re:Counterfeiting is a *federal* crime... by cyt0plas · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Presumably the anti-counterfeting software would be able to take this into account.

    Except, of course, when the software refuses to open it in the first place, so you _can't_ get it to the size where it's legal to use. If they must put in software like this (which I don't think they should, but still...), it should be handled on _printing_, not on opening.

    When you simply have a PNG of size X, how does the software know what DPI it's going to end up in?

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