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Re: How do I get the encrypted competition manual?

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I haven't tested this on an encrypted file, but Mac OS X's native print dialog allows saving the print output as a PDF as well. (And depending on your team makeup, there may be more Mac people than Linux people on your team.)
I just tried it on the encrypted 2011 manual. It does not allow you to print an encrypted pdf to another pdf.
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Re: How do I get the encrypted competition manual?

Remember you are dealing with copyrighted material, why hosting the manual won't necessarily violate the terms of use I'm sure creating a torrent would.

It's not a bad idea to have teams host the manual the first week but if you do, please commit to removing it after the first update.
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Re: How do I get the encrypted competition manual?

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Remember you are dealing with copyrighted material, why hosting the manual won't necessarily violate the terms of use I'm sure creating a torrent would.
There's zero legal distinction between the two methods. A torrent is just another way to share a document.
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Re: How do I get the encrypted competition manual?

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Remember you are dealing with copyrighted material, why hosting the manual won't necessarily violate the terms of use I'm sure creating a torrent would.

It's not a bad idea to have teams host the manual the first week but if you do, please commit to removing it after the first update.
Whether or not anyone but FIRST legally can distribute it without their permission is up for debate, I fail to see how sharing it through torrents is any different than hosting it on a server for direct download.

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I just tried it on the encrypted 2011 manual. It does not allow you to print an encrypted pdf to another pdf.
If you have Acrobat, it takes about 2 clicks to remove the security.

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Re: How do I get the encrypted competition manual?

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Remember you are dealing with copyrighted material, why hosting the manual won't necessarily violate the terms of use I'm sure creating a torrent would.

It's not a bad idea to have teams host the manual the first week but if you do, please commit to removing it after the first update.
I posted links in a few places last year with the disclaimer: "After the first week these rules may no longer be entirely accurate, I hold no responsibility for not keeping up with rule updates."

Last year over week 1 we went through 30GB of bandwidth with 30,000 page hits and 10,000 file transfers on the manual, so I think keehun & I will host it again this year.

The attached pictures are the data for kickoff day, the first is general data, the second picture is the number of times each file was downloaded

EDIT: I want to say save as in most pdf viewers can remove encryption too, if I host the documents on kickoff I will unencrypt them for ease of use, I would prefer you save them to a computer rather than repeatedly downloading.
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Re: How do I get the encrypted competition manual?

I will put it up on my team's site. We supposedly have unlimited bandwith for it so we can test it.
The link to the site page is:
http://nfraiderrobotics.com/frcmanual.html
Feel free to test with the other one and I will put up this years as soon as it comes out.
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Re: How do I get the encrypted competition manual?

Just to try to help those looking for less headaches on kickoff and after...

1. I highly recommend at least one person on your team bring a laptop and write down the password on a note or word or something. very useful, especially for copy paste-ing.

2. Google Sites or Google Docs would be a good free way to host the document. At the very least, you could host it for your team that way.
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