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Breaking Google's DRM
An anonymous reader writes "Google's new Google Print service (that lets you see scanned pages from printed books) has a pile of advanced browser-disabling DRM in it ('Pages displaying your content have print, cut, copy, and save functionality disabled in order to protect your content.'). This works with JavaScript turned off, even in Free Software browsers. Seth Schoen has posted preliminary notes on some breaks to the DRM (beyond just automating a screenshotting process), including a proposal for a circumventing proxy that would fetch Google Print pages and strip out the DRM. A full exploration of the html obfuscation and DRM employed by Google would be very interesting; certainly the ability for a remote attacker to disable critical browser features like save, right-click, copy and cut against the user's wishes is a major security vulnerability in Moz/Firefox and should be fixed ASAP."
It isn't about "security" or even "fair use" it's about the ability to cut and paste, save and print someone else's content without their permissions.
Yet another brainwashed zombie...
Go read the copyright law. I DON'T FUCKING NEED "their permissions" to do a great deal of things with copyrighted works. I can LEGALLY cut, paste, save, and print copyrighted content without asking anyone. I can not *redistribute* it, but no one is talking about redistribution here.
If Google sends an image file to my computer, I have full legal rights to cut, paste, save, and print it. Google may try to prevent me, but nothing obligates me to follow their wishes.
Kaa
Kaa's Law: In any sufficiently large group of people most are idiots.
Oh, so Acrobat Reader too has been in violation of your rights for a while!
Why don't you and the "security risk" crowd block the site so that it does not violate your rights and continue posing "security risk"?