Blogcritics: Comments on Repeat After Me: Honesty Is the Best Policy

Comment by Paul M Johnson

Tue, 13 Jan 2004 12:34:19 EST

5 legitimate reasons to scan in money: 1) news story about the new design of (say) the $20 bill. 2) a news story comparing the designs on the various dollar bills. 3) a school report on paper money form aroundthe world (scan in various examples) 4) creating a statirical version of a $100 with say Bush the Elder on it. (Why shouldn't it look close to a real version of the note?) 5) using the image to create a piece of visual art. Happy?

Comment by TDavid

Mon, 12 Jan 2004 20:45:32 EST

Kudos to Adobe for paving the way for legal use of their software. Basement photoshop counterfeiters is the last thing the PC world needs. With that said, this won't stop hardcore countefeiters from writing their own image scanning and editing software. Just counterfeiting the bill is only part of the process, they still need to get the right kind of paper and actually print the bogus currency. Money feels like, well, money. All that wasted time to do something illegal ... just think of what better uses of time there are?

Comment by Mac Diva

Mon, 12 Jan 2004 20:05:59 EST

Paul, there are enough images of American currency, at least, around to fulfill anyone's needs. Like Craig, I await your list of legitimate reasons to do this. Take all the space you need.

Comment by Mark Saleski

Mon, 12 Jan 2004 16:54:35 EST

anybody ever seen the Nova (i think) show about the artist who made reproductions of currency? i think his name was boggs. pretty cool stuff.

Comment by Eric Olsen

Mon, 12 Jan 2004 16:50:17 EST

I may indeed be full of it today, but other than the creation of art, what are the "numerous" purposes of reproducing currency? All the more reason they should have been honest about it. How's this protest slogan? "Photoshop doesn't counterfeit, people counterfeit."

Comment by Craig Lyndall

Mon, 12 Jan 2004 16:49:04 EST

Alright, I am game Paul M Johnson. I would like you to name 5 of your numerous reasons.

Comment by Mark Saleski

Mon, 12 Jan 2004 16:42:23 EST

Alanis and I both do boy eric, you're just full of it today! ;-)

Comment by Paul M Johnson

Mon, 12 Jan 2004 16:41:34 EST

Ummm, you do realize that are NUMEROUS legitimate reasons someone migyt want to scan in a manipulate an image of currancy right? You do also realize that this is also a perfectly legal activity provided if you print out an unaltered version of the bill it is either 75% or less than the original size or greater than 150% of its size. This is a a private company basically outlawing a perfectlty legal activity. I hope the market punishes them for this action. Oh and this won't do a damn thing to prevent serious oprganized counterfiting which is the true threat.

Comment by Eric Olsen

Mon, 12 Jan 2004 16:36:59 EST

Exactly, it's old news, I heard from someone who worked with Xerox in the early '80s and they were tweaking the green to avoid counterfeiting on copiers then. That's why I don't get why Adobe didn't just add this to the FAQ when they put it in.

Comment by Mac Diva

Mon, 12 Jan 2004 16:32:56 EST

And, some of the counterfeiters will call Adobe technical support all infuriated. People are strange. Why aren't I all that upset about government meddling? Because counterfeiting operations are something the feds have always had a stake in. It is the new abridgements of individual freedom that worry me.

Comment by Eric Olsen

Mon, 12 Jan 2004 16:27:02 EST

Alanis and I both do.

Comment by Craig Lyndall

Mon, 12 Jan 2004 16:21:25 EST

"I am really pissed off that my pirated copy of adobe photoshop acts like this." For the record I don't have a copy of this software, but I wonder how many of the internet users from the message boards actually paid for their copies of the expensive package. Kind of ironic really, don't you think?