News is circulating that the built-in PDF viewer that is available in Gmail allows PDF DRM restrictions (such as copy/paste restrictions) to be bypassed. 

• Useful?  Yes. 
• Dodgy?  Certainly. 
• Likely to be patched soon?  Probably not.

The same is true of PDFs cached by Google's search engine.

Note:  This does not allow you to bypass Adobe Reader DRM for ebooks.

Technorati Tags: Gmail, PDF, DRM

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