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Gallery of Adobe Remedies Professor David Touretzky's gallery of methods to circumvent access controls in PDF (Portable Document Format) files that prevent purchasers from making lawful use of all of their contents. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Adobe/Gallery/

Planet eBook: US arrests programmer over circumvention of copyright protections Affidavit identifies Dmitry Sklyarov copyright holder of AEBPR software. (July 18, 2001) http://www.planetebook.com/mainpage.asp?webpageid=172

Slashdot: Adobe Responds to KIllustrator Adobe responds to controversy, demanding that KIllustrator gets a new name, but saying they don't want to stop its distribution or development and promising that the author won't have to pay anything. (July 11, 2001) http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/07/11/1429224

Slashdot: Killustrator Author Required to Pay Two Grand Article about Adobe's lawyers's demand that the University of Magdeburg sign their cease and desist letter, destroy kIllustrator packaging, name every KIllustrator user, and disclose the profit they made from it. (July 4, 2001) http://slashdot.org/articles/01/07/04/013249.shtml

Slashdot: Adobe Threatens KIllustrator Over Name News about Adobe demanding 2500 EUR from the developer of Linux KDE drawing program "Killustrator" for violating their trademark for Adobe Illustrator. News and discussion forum. (July 2, 2001) http://slashdot.org/articles/01/07/02/1648243.shtml