Yes, unfortunately. That guy made a great program. Now the Advanced PDF password recovery is available, and it is a great tool for the blind who want to save the PDF file as text, if the PDF file is copy protected. And I've seen that this product is legal now. It has a web site, a price, advertising. Teddy, orasnita at home.ro ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Holmes" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 5:12 AM Subject: Re: possible sollution I think a Russian fello went to jail for something like this. He had some utility to break through into protected PDF files. Like I said before in my last post, I hope crack discussions move elsewhere. I sure don't want to see a list of linux users get accused or sighted for aleged illegal activities and get taken away from us. You never know these paranoid days. On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 03:16:40AM +0300, Octavian Rasnita wrote: > What does it mean to encourage? > Can I make an online course for those who want learning how to crack > software? > They don't want to crack, and they won't use a pirated version, but they > want to learn only. > Is it illegal to learn? > > It was just an example. Unfortunately I don't know so many things about > software development to be able to crack something which is a little > harder... > Teddy, > orasnita at home.ro > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Darrell Shandrow" <nu7i at azboss.net> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Saturday, May 18, 2002 7:50 AM > Subject: Re: possible sollution > > > Hi Cecil, > > Actually, here in the states, I believe our freedom of speech rights would > hold up to a court of law on this regard. Notice, I say freedom of speech, > not freedom of actions. So, we can talk about it as long as we don't > actually do it or encourage anyone... > > Regards. > > At 08:30 PM 5/17/2002 -0400, you wrote: > > >*snip* > > > > > Hey Igor, > > > What you may want to look at is just doing a dump *snip* > > > >Can you please cease and desist with this on this list? After all, there > is > >a DMCA for us here in the u.s. This thread is quite possibly over the line > >of what is legal within this country. I for one do not wish to see this > >list banned and the site blocked and I assume that either or both could > >occur within the u.s. Your cooperation is appreciated. > > > >Regards, > > > >Cecil Whitley > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Speakup mailing list > >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > >--- > >Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. > >Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > >Version: 6.0.361 / Virus Database: 199 - Release Date: 5/7/2002 > > Best regards, > Darrell Shandrow > Access technology consulting / network and UNIX systems > administration. > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- > ---- > > > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.361 / Virus Database: 199 - Release Date: 5/7/2002 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup