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submitted 2 years 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 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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 2 years ago

You fucking legend, you

[-] YoorWeb@lemmy.world 29 points 2 years ago

[-] Hyperreality@kbin.social 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

What about invisible/hidden watermarks?

[-] darkstar@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 years ago

How dare you! Guards! Arrest this man!

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