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Okular, Debian, and copy restrictions

Posted Jun 1, 2009 22:11 UTC (Mon) by johnflux (guest, #58833)
Parent article: Okular, Debian, and copy restrictions

The Okular developers spent a long time trying to get this right, and imho have a great solutions.

You can easily turn off, but in corporate settings the administrator can override and force the protection on or off (through the kiosk tool).

I can't believe that people are complaining about this.

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Okular, Debian, and copy restrictions

Posted Jun 1, 2009 22:52 UTC (Mon) by quotemstr (subscriber, #45331) [Link]

My only gripe is the default setting: DRM should be off by default. These "restrictions" are in practice just advisory, and the user should opt into them.

Okular, Debian, and copy restrictions

Posted Jun 2, 2009 0:06 UTC (Tue) by briangmaddox (subscriber, #39279) [Link]

I'd imagine that having it on by default is also a CYA move in case anyone ever tried to come after them.