ANTI-COUNTERFEITING SOFTWARE Publique Deposited
The E-Sylum: Volume 7, Number 4, January 25, 2004, Article 17
ANTI-COUNTERFEITING SOFTWARE
Some more more thoughts on the anti-counterfeiting features
being built into software were published in the January 19,
2004 issue of Network World:"At first blush this seems to be a reasonable way to slow the
rush of teenagers using color computer printers to print their
own money, but there are a number of troubling aspects to
the story.""I did some experiments with my copy of PhotoShop CS.
The software recognized the new U.S. $20 bills, 10 and 20
Euro notes, Canadian $20, $50 and $100 bills, and English
20 pound notes. It did not recognize U.S. $1, $10, $50 or
$100 bills or $20 bills with the old design, nor did it recognize
English 5 or 10 pound notes. (That was all the money I had
around the house.) In case any law enforcement folk are
reading this, I followed the rules and deleted the scanned
images as soon as my test was done.Because U.S. law allows one-sided color reproductions of
U.S. currency as long as the image is less than three-fourths
or more then 1.5 times the size of the actual bill..., PhotoShop
CS actually stops the user from doing completely legal things.
Other countries have similar laws (see www.rulesforuse.org).
In fact, the U.S. Secret Service could not have used PhotoShop
CS to produce its Web page if it used a current rather than an
old $20 bill as the sample currency."To read the full article, see:
Anti-counterfeiting software[So ... if software is outlawed, only outlaws will have software
to manipulate images of currency. -Editor]- 2004-01-25
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