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January 13, 2004
Adobe: Hand Over The Cash
Adobe, Ulead and Jasc have a new chunk of code in the latest versions of their image editing software, including Adobe Photoshop CS, that tries to prevent you from devious doings. No, I’m not talking about pirating software, I’m talking about pirating…money. Some third-party software developer has taken it upon itself to get its anti-counterfitting software embedded in these major image editing applications. So now, if you try to scan money or open an image containing a significant portion of a bill, you’ll get an error message.
This is a problem for me. I don’t counterfit money, and have no intention of doing so. However, images of money show up almost daily in the design work my company does for the gaming and retail industries — for ads about cash prizes, big sales, etc. If all of a sudden, I can’t open an ad in my brand new version of Photoshop, I’m sunk. There are entire stock photo libraries dedicated to currency photography. How can Adobe & friends overlook these issues to try to deter a few bad eggs that will find a way around their efforts anyway?!
I’m still using Photoshop 7 for a number of reasons, and if Adobe wants me to upgrade, they’ll need to start addressing the needs of their user base, instead of just adding features that few use, making the application slower, or assuming the user is a criminal — the RIAA does that enough for everybody.
Posted by paullheureux at January 13, 2004 02:16 PM