Adobe bows to gvt pressure, includes banknote detection in Photoshop

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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Early coverage here:
http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx?128@251.aTiabueoSP3.265295@.2ccf3d27
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=hYoBb.25499%24o9.19199%40fed1read07
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/01/08/0111228&mode=thread&tid=152&tid=185

Confirmation here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4578-2004Jan9.html

By TED BRIDIS
The Associated Press
Friday, January 9, 2004; 7:02 PM

WASHINGTON - Adobe Systems Inc. acknowledged Friday it quietly added 
technology to the world's best-known graphics software at the request of 
government regulators and international bankers to prevent consumers from 
making copies of the world's major currencies.

The unusual concession has angered scores of customers.

Adobe, the world's leading vendor for graphics software, said the secretive 
technology "would have minimal impact on honest customers." It generates a 
warning message when someone tries to make digital copies of some currencies.

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