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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[–] Atropos@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago (8 children)

I think if you print the PDF to another PDF, it'll lose any copy protection or potential identifiers.

[–] sebinspace@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Can anyone confirm this? Would make the whole process very macroable

[–] theamigan@lemmy.dynatron.me 3 points 2 years ago

If you use ghostscript, it absolutely should, but you're probably better off using something like cpdf.

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