Imaging recource: EFF wants to keep DRM out of JPEGs – for all the right reasons

Yesterday, the Joint Photographic Expert Group (JPEG), who’s responsible for keeping the JPEG image format relevant and up to date, had a meeting in Brussels, Belgium to discuss the future of the ubiquitous format. During the meeting, the JPEG Privacy and Security group discussed the possibility of adding DRM to the JPEG format, an idea first explained back in September 2015. To counter the implementation of DRM into the JPEG format, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a donor-supported organization determined to ‘defend your rights in the digital...
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