Mark,
You are exactly right. It's sometime amazing how things that actually
happen by chance are attributed to some grand conspiracy theory.
I called "Denver" last year to ask about the protections, and they said they
didn't have a clue. They (Denver) send the CD art work and the book
(electronically) to the printers/publishers, and they (the printer) produce
the pdf and print the book, packaging the whole thing as they go. The
protections happened by "default".
The fact that the printer )not Denver) makes the pdf and CD is one reason
why page numbers are so screwed up, and there is no real index in the PDF
files. (They are off by 20 pages.) The GCR and all the spec books are even
worse. They simply take the galley sheet file and blindly convert it to a
PDF file, and blast it to CD rom.
I was told that there is no plan for "revenue enhancement" by protecting the
electronic versions, and since it is so easy to get around it, it really
does not matter much.
Chris,
As far as it being too complicated for "any Joe" to get by the protection,
there were directions on how to do it shared on wheel-to-wheel last year,
and lots of road racers had no problem getting past the security bits. Are
you saying that the Road Racers are a lot smarter (as a group) than the
Auto-X folks? I hope not!
D
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-autox@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-autox@autox.team.net]On
Behalf Of Mark J. Andy
Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 9:46 AM
To: Team.net
Subject: Re: 2002 SCCA rules - text format
Howdy,
On Tue, 28 May 2002, Mark Chiles wrote:
> The obvious answer, SCCA makes money selling their copyrighted material
and
> this method of rulebook distribution prevents counterfeit copies of the
> rulebook from being sold by other individuals or regions.
Um, if I wanted to do this, I can do it from the CD they already sent
me... See the rest of the messages in this thread that basically say "if
you know what you're doing, those restrictions don't exist"
> Also, not being able to edit and print the pages of the rulebook, prevents
> someone, who doesn't like certain rules, to edit rulebook to their liking,
> and printing out a modified rulebook, and trying to pass it off as gospel.
>
> Not that anyone has every thought of doing that... ;-)
Now how in the hell would this not get caught?
Not allowing printing / copying from the pdf file is a stupid inconvience
to the members. I've always assumed it was just an oversight and a minor
enough thing that nobody really worried about it. If its part of some
master plan to prevent the stuff you're talking about above, its just
idiocy.
Mark
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