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Old 12-29-2010
Allen v. World and Dog - First Amended Complaint
Paul Allen's Interval Licensing has met the deadline to file an amended complaint [PDF] with specificity. If you can read it without passing out laughing and/or having your head explode with disgust, I'd like to know what happened to you as a child that blunted your normal emotions.
No wonder he didn't want to be specific. This document is Exhibit A for why software patents are an oozing pimple on the nose of the US legal system. Interval is suing because it can, and it would like to be paid by anyone using the Internet in a normal way, and it can because the US Patent Office thought it was good policy to rubber stamp stupid software patents right and left, with the idea that they could be vetted in litigation.
And vetted they will be. But at what cost to the US economy? I can't believe any of these patents will survive intact. Normally, I'd ask you to look for prior art, but I see other, easier ways to toss them in the dumpster, so even if I weren't busy doing Comes v. Microsoft exhibits, I still wouldn't ask you to bother. Post any that you happen to know about, but I'm not asking unless one of the defendants specifically asks for us to do it.

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cam::pdf::decrypt

CAM::PDF::Decrypt(3pm)					User Contributed Perl Documentation				    CAM::PDF::Decrypt(3pm)

NAME

       CAM::PDF::Decrypt - PDF security helper

LICENSE

       See CAM::PDF.

SYNOPSIS

	   use CAM::PDF;
	   my $pdf = CAM::PDF->new($filename);

DESCRIPTION

       This class is used invisibly by CAM::PDF whenever it detects that a document is encrypted.  See new(), getPrefs() and setPrefs() in that
       module.

FUNCTIONS

       $pkg->new($pdf, $ownerpass, $userpass, $prompt)
	   Create and validate a new decryption object.  If this fails, it will set $CAM::PDF::errstr and return undef.

	   $prompt is a boolean that says whether the user should be prompted for a password on the command line.

       $self->decode_permissions($field)
	   Given a binary encoded permissions string from a PDF document, return the four individual boolean fields as an array:

	     print boolean
	     modify boolean
	     copy boolean
	     add boolean

       $self->encode_permissions($print, $modify, $copy, $add)
	   Given four booleans, pack them into a single field in the PDF style that decode_permissions can understand.	Returns that scalar.

       $self->set_passwords($doc, $ownerpass, $userpass)
       $self->set_passwords($doc, $ownerpass, $userpass, $permissions)
	   Change the PDF passwords to the specified values.  When the PDF is output, it will be encrypted with the new passwords.

	   PERMISSIONS is an optional scalar of the form that decode_permissions can understand.  If not specified, the existing values will be
	   retained.

	   Note: we only support writing using encryption version 1, even though we can read encryption version 2 as well.

       $self->encrypt($doc, $string)
	   Encrypt the scalar using the passwords previously specified.

       $self->decrypt($doc, $string)
	   Decrypt the scalar using the passwords previously specified.

AUTHOR

       See CAM::PDF

perl v5.14.2							    2012-07-08						    CAM::PDF::Decrypt(3pm)