Thread: Stopping tazmo...or at least slowing him down considerably

I was thinking, I think it might slow down tazmo considerably, and also hamper the quality of his rip-offs if you released your releases in a multi-page .pdf format. I haven't looked into it, but I believe the editing and importing of pdf's can be locked with password protection using Acrobat Pro. This way, at the very most, Tazmo could only take screenshots of a pdf, and those won't have anywhere near the quality of a regular release. Any thoughts?

Hmmmmm - and how do we all get to know the password without some loyal NF fanatic leaking it out to Tazmo? Once Tazmo knows the password its no better than password-locking the pdf to begin with.

The password is not for accessing the pdf, only protecting against editing or importing. You can of course set a password for reading the pdf, but then it would be just as you described. Readers don't need to know the edit/import password in order to read it. Only the scanlation group would know it, and can keep it to themselves.

It is a good idea. But it really is as easy as the "Print Screen" / "Apple, shift, 3" button, followed by a little photoshopping.

But as you did say it would only slow him down. Which is very true. But atleast he would be one of the last to make a release.

& im pretty sure you can get past the password protection in a few secs with simple programs.

That would depend on how good of a password it is. Follow the simple rules: No dictionary words, mix numbers, letters, and symbols. Now if it tries to brute force it's way in, it'll take a while.

If you're thinking of some simple program that can figure out the password by looking through the bit code for the pdf, I don't believe they would work. Do you really think Adobe would make it that easy to figure that information out?

I don't know how it works, i just know 1 of my lectures put a password on her lecture slides & we got past it pretty quickly by dl some program.

Only way its possible is to not release the raws at all & stop scanlations.

I wonder if someone will ever hack his site, has it happened before?

Originally Posted by ssjasper2003

Only way its possible is to not release the raws at all & stop scanlations.

I wonder if someone will ever hack his site, has it happened before?

No1 has hacked his site and yet ... Nor can i find anyone who is willing to do it id pay for someone to hack his site...

There are products out there that EASILY remove passwords from PDF's in a matter of nanoseconds . I'm sure it wouldn't be hard for tazmo to find the tool to do this.