Orwell & Adobe: mail them scanned currency as a message

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Gerry_O_Brien
Jan 10, 2004
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Adobe’s Orwellian censorship of free speech (by secretly adding code to prohibit the legitimate scanning of currency) requires a swift and dramatic response from Photoshop users everywhere.

Unfortunately, sending emails is not the answer.

I recommend that people scan the currency of their choice — and create a one-page message to Adobe. Tell them how you feel.

Send it by postal mail to Adobe Headquarters. This would violate no laws, but send a pointed message to Big Brother.

Adobe Systems Incorporated
345 Park Avenue
San Jose, California 95110-2704
USA

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rickhutson
Jan 10, 2004
I really feel they could care less – at this point in time. Now what happens after the news makes the rounds? Who knows? Unless they see a noticeable loss in sales they’ll do nothing. They have already shown they don’t care about what we want – only the bottom line.

I’m not sending them a thing. If they don’t get it by the responses generated here and other places then it would just be a waste of my time.
JS
jason_sheldon
Jan 11, 2004
They’ll be preventing us from scanning magazines next, or DVD, book, video and CD covers (All of which are a breach of copyright for unauthorised reproduction – except, I believe, where they are being used for ‘review’ purposes?).

But at what point does an infringement occur – the moment you scan it in, or when you reprint it without permission?

I’ve seen television adverts, and even print adverts with images of bank-notes… guess we won’t be seeing any more if Adobe prevent us from manipulating them.

I’m a little miffed – especially considering that I’ve got all three volumes of Hemera Photo Objects 50,000 – some content includes pictures of currency – coins and notes. (Luckily, the notes still load in, however, none of them are ‘face on’ and are all at different angles.

However, there is a way around this, for the moment. Scan the image in and save through the scanning application, rather than straight into Photoshop.
Then open a document in Photoshop, and copy/paste the currency image into the document from another ‘viewing application (I haven’t tried dragging it directly from the folder or desktop, but in ACDSee 6, ‘viewed’ the image, and selected the area of the banknote and ‘copy’ from the menu, then pasted the clipboard into the existing Photoshop document.)
You can then perform certain actions on the imported layer… not sure if it would print though, haven’t tried.

What happens though if you DO have permission to use images of currency? Is there a legal way of getting this restriction lifted???

I remember working for a major software developer who implemented CD protection on one of their products… which turned out to be incompatible with a large number of systems, so they had to supply an unprotected version of the product to those customers who complained. As they didn’t have the unprotected source material any longer, they had to employ a third party to remove the protection.

I just wonder what will happen when one day you can’t buy a PC or storage device capable of ‘copying’ protected material… there are going to be some VERY awkward situations when even copyright owners won’t be able to do anything with their own material.

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Andrew_da_Smith
Jan 12, 2004
At least there is always Photoshop 7 to work with if you really need to.

Andrew
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Gary_Robertshaw
Jan 12, 2004
OK, I just scanned 9 $20 bills in PS7 (to represent what I saved by NOT upgrading to PSCS). Where do I send them? 8^)

Seriously, I wasn’t going to upgrade anyway, though I’ve done so regularly since PS3, due to the high cost of CS, features I don’t need, too much bloat, and activation in case I need to use it on a laptop (if I get one) besides my two home computers. This just reassures me it’s the right decision.

Has it occurred to anyone that even if Adobe apologizes and makes a patch available for this, that you still don’t know what else is in there? You also have paid for all the work/time/trouble to put that junk in there, even if they patch it out; not to mention the time wasted by slowing things down while it checks your scan for appropriateness. Are they going to refund that excess cost also? Did you buy a new machine because the old one was too slow with CS? Hmmm…

On top of all that, another forum posted a message from someone who apparently likes to read EULA’s (yes, I confess, I’m a sloth who doesn’t, shame on me, I find them boring) that said the EULA states that if you sell or return PSCS, you forfeit your license to use prior versions also. To which I would normally answer "am I on Candid Camera?", but in this case I don’t know. If that’s true, and I hope it’s not, they might as well write in there that you also have to move to the moon and can never clip your toenails again.
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rickhutson
Jan 12, 2004
While we’re on the EULA……………..

"14.8 Online Services.
14.8.1 The Software may rely upon or facilitate your access to websites maintained by Adobe or its affiliates or third parties offering goods, information, software and services ("Online Services"). "
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mistermonday
Jan 12, 2004
Gerry, does PS actually refuse to import the image, refuse to process the image, or distort it in such a way as to render the scan useless?
Rgds, MM

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