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PDF Piracy (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by sebinspace@lemmy.world to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I am officially an old person, as I have subscribed to a magazine. It’s niche, but it’s been around a long time, and having enjoyed a lot of issues in my childhood that were given to me for free, I feel I should give back.

I’m wondering if there are precautions I should take. Can any sort of copy protection be put into PDFs that I should strip out? If I share them as a torrent, should I be worried that the publisher can tell where they came from?

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[–] Axxi@lemmy.world 135 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

cough, cough

Whoops! It appears as though I've unintentionally dropped a link regarding meta data removal from PDF's..

https://pdf.wondershare.com/how-to/remove-metadata-from-pdf.html

I suppose I'll just leave it there for any interested parties to do with it what they will. 😉

[–] sebinspace@lemmy.world 45 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You fucking legend, you

[–] YoorWeb@lemmy.world 29 points 10 months ago

[–] Hyperreality@kbin.social 17 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

What about invisible/hidden watermarks?

[–] darkstar@sh.itjust.works 8 points 10 months ago

How dare you! Guards! Arrest this man!