9/11 Commission Report is crippled with DRM
The PDF edition of the (uncopyrighted) 9/11 Commission Report has Adobe's DRM turned on. Even though you're legally allowed to copy, paste and remix the report (US government docs can't be copyrighted), the technology stops you. And it's illegal to break the technology. But hey, who needs democracy when you're busily designing DRM systems?
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(via Michael Geist)
Update: Brian sez, "another official government agency, the Government Printing Office, has it available for download with no DRM."
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