Break PDF DRM with Scribd

By at 10:09 am Monday, Apr 23

Andreas sez, "About a year ago, I submitted that Gmail's 'View as HTML' functionality allowed you to extract text from a DRMed PDF -- a bug/feature that was 'fixed' by Google a couple of weeks later.

"However, it seems that you can do something similar with online document sharing site Scribd: DRMed PDF files can be downloaded in plain text and several other formats, and there's even an unencumbered PDF download option!" Link (Thanks, Andreas!)

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Cory Doctorow

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With a Little Help (short stories)
For the Win (YA novel)
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