"Since the behaviour of (software product XYZ) since the introduction of its latest version, namely the talkback functions which notify unknown third parties every time the user opens a document, might be illegal under german law, we're forced to drop (software product XYZ) from our linux distribution until further notice, especially since there are other products which are as capable, and do'nt do illegal things."
Along the same track, do you think that browsers that support JavaScript are outlawed in Germany too? Acroread 7 is not doing the callback, it is the embedded JavaScript in the document that is. A document without such code will not make a callback. So in the best case, documents with embedded JavaScript that provide callbacks might be outlawed, but you and I know that this aint gonna happen on a global scale. If you don't like the possibility that Acroread calls back, either don't install it or take measures against it to connect to the outside world. If you Google around for a while you will see many suggestions on how to accomplish that. Arjen