[GreenKeys] Postal Telegraph-Cable Co. Model 26 - eBay

[Jordan Spencer Cunningham]

I work for Adobe-- not on this product, but I am aware of how it works.

This "borrowing" system relies on a form of DRM (digital rights management) that's pretty much an Adobe-only service, so you have to go through Adobe to download and decrypt the document.

The funny thing about DRM is that somebody's always going to find a way around it and make it easy for others to pirate the content, but content owners/creators keep fighting it tooth and nail instead of just making it easy for people to give them a few bucks for an honest transaction. There is a potential way around this DRM, though this is not the forum to discuss that.

Anyway, once you "borrow" the book from Archive.org, you can read the entire thing in the browser from that page without having to install any Adobe stuff that's going to track the heck out of you. You need to have an Archive.org account to do that, though, if you're willing to trust Archive.org instead of Adobe. The downside is you're stuck in the browser for this, but it's better than nothing.

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On Tue, Feb 25, 2020, at 1:18 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Feb 2020, Paul Heller wrote:
> 
> > “The story of telecommunications by George P. Oslin”.
> > 
> > Interesting experience just now. I searched for this book and found it 
> > on archive.org. I thought “Great!” Then I found I could only “borrow” 
> > it and doing so required that a special version of Adobe software be 
> > installed. Anyone ever tried that? I stopped trusting Adobe years ago 
> > and am not about to install any of their software, so I’ll be looking 
> > for other ways to get the book. 
> 
> Odd... At a guess I'd say that the "borrowed" book has an expiry date 
> embedded into it, which this "special version" of Adobe honours.
> 
> I would not install it; what else could it be doing, I wonder?
> 
> -- Dave VK2KFU
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