DRM for JPEG? Standards group could make it happen<article>
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<p>Being able to copy, modify, and share image files on the Internet is something we take for granted now, but the standards body in charge of JPEG is looking to change that.</p><p>For several months, the JPEG Committee has been considering a DRM scheme for its wildly popular image format. While a DRM extension already exists for JPEG 2000—a version used for medical imaging and other professional cases—the committee is now thinking of <a href="
.org/items/20150910_privacy_security_summary.html">adding DRM more broadly[/url]. The Electronic Frontier Foundation
wrote about this issue this week, and presented its case against DRM to the JPEG standards body.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2993351/software-web/drm-for-jpeg-standards-group-could-make-it-happen.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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DRM for JPEG? Standards group could make it happen
