[plug] email with copyright protection? Maybe a bit [OT]?

[Shayne O'Neill]

are there any macs in the equasion here? They can add all sorts of funny
metadata to things sometimes.

--
"Well, I think if you say you're going to do something and don't do
it, that's trustworthiness."
-- George Bush on CNN online chat, Aug.30, 2000
RIAA Copyright notice trap: http://guild.murdoch.edu.au/~shayne/

On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 rpowersau at gmail.com wrote:

> On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 14:39:03 +0800 (WST), Shayne O'Neill
> <shayne at guild.murdoch.edu.au> wrote:
> >
> > *Gasp!* Thats full on!.
>
> It's a worry, that's for sure. I just assumed it was uwa not wanting
> students to 'pollute' their network with spam, viruses, and porn.
>
> > I think photoshop can embed little stenographic copywrite metadata
> > thingees into photos (I might be wrong). wasnt aware anything actually
> > uses that info.
>
> Thanks for that info.  I wasn't aware of that.
>
> Did some googling on it then opened the files in photoshop but there
> was no copyright in them. And we don't copyright our photos anyhow so
> it's not only a pain, but it's wrong.
>
>
> >
> > --
> > "Well, I think if you say you're going to do something and don't do
> > it, that's trustworthiness."
> > -- George Bush on CNN online chat, Aug.30, 2000
> > RIAA Copyright notice trap: http://guild.murdoch.edu.au/~shayne/
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 rpowersau at gmail.com wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I've just had an odd experience. Unfortunately it was with a customer
> > > who is not happy about it.
> > >
> > > I sent this person a jpeg file. She claims she received it, can see a
> > > thumbnail view of it, but can't open it or save it. She says she gets
> > > warnings about copyright violation when she tries.
> > >
> > > Is this some new windoze thing? Could it be done at the isp end (she
> > > has a uwa student account)?
> > >
> > > I've sent it to other machines on my lan (imac, linux, win98) and had
> > > no problem opening and viewing.
> > >
> > > Anybody know how this could be done or how it could be avoided?
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > > --
> > > Regards,
> > > Russ
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> >
>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Russ
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