The E-Sylum:  Volume 7, Number 4, January 25, 2004, Article 17

ANTI-COUNTERFEITING SOFTWARE

  Some more more thoughts on the anti-counterfeiting features
  being built into software were published in the January 19,
  2004 issue of Network World:

  "At first blush this seems to be a reasonable way to slow the
  rush of teenagers using color computer printers to print their
  own money, but there are a number of troubling aspects to
  the story."

  "I did some experiments with my copy of PhotoShop CS.
  The software recognized the new U.S. $20 bills, 10 and 20
  Euro notes, Canadian $20, $50 and $100 bills, and English
  20 pound notes. It did not recognize U.S. $1, $10, $50 or
  $100 bills or $20 bills with the old design, nor did it recognize
  English 5 or 10 pound notes. (That was all the money I had
  around the house.) In case any law enforcement folk are
  reading this, I followed the rules and deleted the scanned
  images as soon as my test was done.

  Because U.S. law allows one-sided color reproductions of
  U.S. currency as long as the image is less than three-fourths
  or more then 1.5 times the size of the actual bill..., PhotoShop
  CS actually stops the user from doing completely legal things.
  Other countries have similar laws (see www.rulesforuse.org).
  In fact, the U.S. Secret Service could not have used PhotoShop
  CS to produce its Web page if it used a current rather than an
  old $20 bill as the sample currency."

  To read the full article, see:
  Anti-counterfeiting software

  [So ... if software is outlawed, only outlaws will have software
  to manipulate images of currency.  -Editor]

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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