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Ashcroft taking on piracy
[quote name="Fussbett"]Sanitario666: Hey, guess who is one of the ultimate benefactors of intellectual property theft? INC: competitors? Sanitario666: terrorists! INC: hahaha I knew it! [quote]The <a href="http://www.cybercrime.gov/IPTaskForceReport.pdf" target="pdf">report (.pdf)</a> -- which covers copyrights, trade secrets, trademarks and patents -- also says that those who benefit most from this theft "are criminals, and alarmingly, criminal organizations with possible ties to terrorism." [/quote] possible <font size="+1">ties</font> <font size="+2">to</font> <font size="+3">terrorism</font> [quote]Calling it "music to our ears," Mitch Bainwol, CEO of the Recording Industry Association of America, praised the Justice Department for making the prosecution of copyright violators a priority. "No administration has ever mounted such a comprehensive approach to defending <font color="yellow">America's gift to the world -- our creativity</font>," Bainwol said in a statement.[/quote] Sanitario666: Why can't I copy and paste text from Acrobat Reader? Using Acrobat Reader is like being in software prison. INC: the best thing about it is now that they've improved it, it takes about 10 minutes to launch INC: so much better than having to quickly read webpages that pop right up Sanitario666: Like, does the document author specify that the user can't copy text from the document? Because my EDIT options are all greyed out. Sanitario666: I can't even intellectually steal text from this document about stealing intellectual property. INC: Adobe is really concerned about people copying text INC: who knows what might happen if all of a sudden people could just copy text Sanitario666: This is seriously driving me crazy. Because I wan't to copy and paste so much. INC: well, it won't import into Photoshop INC: because there is a master key :( INC: they really don't want anyone fucking with this report Sanitario666: "Document Properties" tells the sad tale of how everything is NOT ALLOWED Sanitario666: Well that's the end of that. Caltrops denied my brilliant post thanks to John Ashcroft's paranoia.[/quote]