Hello! My name is Martin Eklund, a member of FSF since about a year. Sometime ago I was reading this spec:
http://www.midi.org/about-midi/gm//gmguide2.pdf/
I wanted to grab some sentences to my notes, so I pressed ctrl-c, however it did not seem to work. I looked in various menus and I was furious when I found out this apparent bug, was actually announced as a "feature" in the pdf reader.
Maybe I am mistaken, but I do believe this DRM is not just implementation, it is actually a part of the pdf standard. To give "content-creators" the power to block copying, and printing of documents. (taking control away from the end user)
In my mind, this is clearly against the philosophy of FSF. This kind of stuff is also implemented in the some of the software you are listing on the campaign site. At the sumatra pdf changelog:
http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/news.html
one can read, at "0.6 (2007-04-29)"
"don't allow printing in PDFs that have printing forbidden"
I like standards, and pdf is technically quite ok. But I cannot fully embrace a standard claiming that apparent bugs are features. The best way to handle this would be to create a kind of "relaxed mode" pdf, where the DRM parts of the standard are avoided.
Perhaps all this was discussed before the campaign was launched, I don't know. Let me know your thoughts on this.
Peace. /Martin http://music.teadrinker.net