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27 Central Banks Push Anti-Counterfeit Software
securitas writes "GlobeTechnology reports that the 27-member Central Bank Counterfeit Deterrence Group is behind the anti-counterfeit software in Adobe Photoshop CS, Ulead PhotoImpact, Jasc Paint Shop Pro and others. Consortium members of the Central Bank Counterfeit Deterrence Group include the USA, Canada, Germany, Japan, Australia and many more. Law enforcement agencies and banknote-issuing authorities say that it is a response to the rapid growth of digital counterfeiting. The software is distributed free of charge to hardware and software manufacturers and is voluntary to use. But the European Union is drafting legislation to force manufacturers to include anti-counterfeit measures in all systems, scanners or printers sold in Europe. Counterfeiting and anti-counterfeiting with Adobe Photoshop and other products like inkjet printers have been the subject of recent discussion on Slashdot."
You are an absolute moron. Your stupidity is unmatched by the mental faculties of a thousand lightbulbs. What recourse do I have if I'm designing something that looks enough like currency to trigger it, but actually has a legitimate purpose? The quality of this statement stands on its own. I don't even want to mock it because it resides alone on a separate ethereal plane, detached from universal existence, impervious to traditional modes of inquiry. To qualify it as e.g. a "stupid statement" would be to reduce it to a mere two-dimensional load of poo, on an evaluative metric traceable along an axis from absolute negative to absolute positive. This is, without a doubt, less than it deserves. I'm afraid a more accurate evaluation of this statement (and indeed, other parts of your comment) is beyond the limits of our current understanding of universal metaphysics.
their first as fat faggots
oh shut up