There are commercial products; which are perfectly legal; that will remove
>all of the security locks in a regular PDF document.  The company that sells
>these programs has gotten into trouble with another utility that they sell
>that removes security from Adobe's ebooks, but that's a totally different
>issue.  The product is called Advanced PDF Password Recovery (APDFPR) and
>information is available at:
>
>http://www.elcomsoft.com/apdfpr.html
>
>There's a free demo download, but it doesn't include the command line
>function and is limited to files less than 64K in size.  I've used this
>program for the past couple of years and find it invaluable.
>
>Note that sending a locked file to the popular PDF translation site will not
>avail you anything.  If the file is locked, this site can't handle it any
>better than the Acrobat Reader yu have installed on your system.


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