Adobe Bows to US and Int'l Government Pressure

Includes Anti-Counterfitting Code in Photoshop

[bakedjake]

Adobe Systems Inc. acknowledged Friday it quietly added technology to the world's best-known graphics software at the request of government regulators and international bankers to prevent consumers from making copies of the world's major currencies.

[washingtonpost.com...]

[korkus2000]

I would be interested in seeing it work. I think it will start to cause problems with some graphics that are unrelated.

[too much information]

I wonder if there are any clues on it that may help graphic artists or photographers as far as copying and editing goes.

Could be a big bonus to some consumers if there was a way to protect your work that was built in to the software.

[Visit Thailand]

Great post and link bakedjake.

Interesting article, it seems that it is only apparent in CS but raises a whole load of questions.

Wonder how many people went off to get some different currencies just to see what happens!

[mbauser2]

I predict the headline "Adobe currency protection cracked" will appear on Slashdot within six months.

[sidyadav]

yep, its gonna get cracked sometime or another, its almost impossible to stop software piration. People spend almost months ("wasting") their time into cracking some software, when they know they can get into deep **** for doing it, and they get "ABSOLUTELY" nothing. Except for the $110 software.

I hope sometime people realize that piracy is a BAD thing.

Sid

[hannamyluv]

I hope sometime people realize that piracy is a BAD thing.

Aiy, me matey. That they do. Arrr...

Sorry, couldn't resist

[benihana]

its gonna get cracked sometime or another

dont know about technically 'being cracked', but its apparently trivially easy [wired.com] to get round.

not condoning this sort of thing, just posting the article :)

ben

[bcolflesh]

Just don't acquire the currency image in CS, it will still edit the resulting file from any outside source - it's hardly worthwhile "protection" - the actual technology they allude to is much more interesting, as they claim to get a "black box" from the US Treasury Department, which no Adobe employee is allowed to interact with - It must be fun to develop in the dark with the Feds.