Boing Boing: 9/11 Commission Report is crippled with DRM

Thursday, February 1, 2007

Update: Brian sez, "another official government agency, the Government Printing Office, has it available for download with no DRM."

posted by Cory Doctorow at 09:15:19 PM permalink | Other blogs' comments

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Support Bloggers' Rights! HOWTO: Get a link posted to Boing Boing Boing Boing Mobile powered by Winksite Fark rules! This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution. Boing Boing is a trademark of Happy Mutants LLC in the United States [and other countries]. Stats (About our stats) defeat censorware Policies Our first five years' worth of posts in one file	Thursday, February 1, 2007 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? Link (via Michael Geist) Update: Brian sez, "another official government agency, the Government Printing Office, has it available for download with no DRM." posted by Cory Doctorow at 09:15:19 PM permalink \| Other blogs' comments Email this entry to: Your email address: Message (optional):	Boing Boing Sponsored by: Your Text Ad Here Get BB by email: