[TML] Observation on Mongoose Traveller main book

[Jerry W Barrington]

On 8/10/08 7:56 PM, "Mark Urbin" <eclipse at urbin.net> wrote:

> Jerry W Barrington wrote:
>> On 8/10/08 3:31 PM, "Mark Urbin" <eclipse at urbin.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> They use "copy protection" on their PDFs.  At least they did last I
>>> looked into their distribution process, which made it a no go for me.
>> 
>> Do you mean they set the flags that don't let you select & copy text?
> 
> No. They had a stricter "DRM" type encryption.  You can look it up if
> you like.  I did at the time and it's not worth my time to do so now.
> 
> Watermarked PDFs is actually pretty good, consumer wise, in the etext
> market.

I've seen instruction before to remove both passwords & watermarks.
Anything more probably falls in what you're talking about, and I will avoid
those.  I don't tolerate a company telling me when and where I can read my
books.