Remove PDF DRM

[joblack]

Originally Posted by N13L5

Either way, I'm just posting cause I saw this hilarious news on Ars Technica; that the Adobe "ADEPT" DRM had been defeated with a tool called INEPT, adding insult to injury...

I wonder how the DRM team at Adobe feels about that one

Who knows, maybe they're happy cause they get another couple of years of employment to make a new DRM system?

That 'news' is two years old so I suppose it's not news at all .

[N13L5]

lol oops, I clicked some "related" link on Ars and didn't look at the date...

well, to me it was hilarious no matter the date ;-)

[Runner-Runner]

To convert a PDF to .TXT (regardless of DRM) I use

http://www.zamzar.com/

Works very well. Use Calibre to convert/install on your device

[1nd1g0_411]

Originally Posted by llasram

Hmm. I think I would disagree with you. DRM does mean "digital rights management" -- software enforcing restrictions placed on content by the copyright holder. This only works if the content operates purely within a sandbox which recognizes these restrictions, which means that a DRM system must keep the content within the sandbox in order to work. Figuring out how to "release" the content from the sandbox circumvents the purpose of the DRM, and to my mind constitutes a "crack" in the system.

EDIT: Note to self -- read entire thread before replying. Apologies for repeating what others already said.

Well put though old chap.