Honoring the 'digital rights' (DRM) of other people's work?
I suppose this will be the lobbyist's reason to make payoffs to the legislature so they can consolidate the internet into 'providers' ...
In the mean time, Adobe DC ... the giant PITA pdf reader has eliminated 3 functions in their latest UPDATE...
> Copy text
> Open links inside pdf
> Open in a resized window ... it has to open full screen now...
All 3 features worked last week ... and I have a checkmark in 'don't update' ...
But the FREE market prevailed and I got an update that ruined the function for doing research ... you cannot even copy the link unless you load the file into chrome and firefox ...
Which tells me chrome and firefox will be updating soon... with much needed DRM protection..
Hurray you say ....
But what happens when you PURCHASE a monthly subscription to adobe???
Oh yes ..;. all that DRM 'protection' disappears... letting you open links, copy content, and EDIT the pdf file... yes you can Paste new content or delete existing content from the preciously protected file...
What a bunch of hooey the adobe people spew on us about protecting DRM rights....
But ... heh heh
I saw forward years ago, and saved an old adobe 8 downloader ...
... and the old one functions fine, lol

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