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PDF Piracy (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by sebinspace@lemmy.world to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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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 17 points 10 months ago (8 children)

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

[–] doc@kbin.social 3 points 10 months ago

Adobe and Microsoft PDF printers retain some information. If you run it through ghostscript you'll get only the PostScript output. You can use a free utility like cutepdf to make it easy. Just install the latest gs release after installing cutepdf instead of the download they provide.

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