At your hard scale Internet user, you brew each day dozens of photos, your son Twitter and Facebook, forums you frequent, on Pinterest, Flickr or on Snapchat and other Instagram. In May 2014, more than 1.8 billion photos that have been uploaded and shared every day.
Tomorrow, this freedom may be limited, controlled, doomed. Indeed, if history is ongoing, these photos could be subject to DRM, the digital locks that prevent you to copy, modify or transmit them. DRM that would reduce a little more freedom of exchange between users online.
Privacy & Security
This is the path that seems to follow the Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) – the consortium behind the famous Jpeg images, last September, when he launched a working group on privacy and security. The motivations of these experts? “The proliferation of the use of digital images raises a number of problems in terms of unwanted communication of private information” explains JPEG, referring to metadata that contain pictures and can give indications of geographical locations, for example … So much for privacy appearance.
Note that just the most popular services online, like Facebook or Twitter, automatically erase the metadata to avoid this kind of problem.
The security aspect could be renamed “respect for intellectual property.” Because for JPEG, it comes to enforcing the rights of authors in “providing confidence while sharing the content of an image and its metadata” says Joint Photographic Experts Group. Online image banks in not a very good eye uncontrolled use of images subject to rights of use.
Inadequate solution
On 13 October, the JPEG committee met in Brussels to discuss the topic with the aim of finding a global solution that could well take the form of digital locks.
In fact, the JPEG 2000, used particularly for medical images already use DRM. But the adoption of a universal format submitted its locks have questions of a different magnitude. Extensions containing the description of duties could thus ensure that an image can only be displayed on a Web page, but a professional image can change … If he has the rights and s’ it has a compatible software …
According to Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), which is moved by this initiative and participated in the meeting of the working group, the danger is potentially result.
The combination of defense of the rights of Internet advances several arguments to show that the DRM solution is not good. For one, it does not guarantee the “protection” data – the key that controls the digital lock will eventually be extracted and diverted. On the other hand, DRM does not fully cover the rights. They do not take into account the copyright limitations such as fair use or the right to quote, for example.
Worse, DRM could lead to anti-competitive or that would interfere with the freedom of circulation of images that could be accessible only in certain regions. Not to mention the problems that digital locks pose in terms of standardization, interoperability, legal risks for developers and researchers, etc. A succession of dangerous points, and crippling the EFF summarized in a formula: “The DRM is considered antithetical to the public interest”
Another way to find.
However conscious of the need to meet certain needs and usages, the EFF offers other technical solutions, such as digital signing of files, which would protect the integrity of the original version and track any changes.
Finally, the Electronic Frontier Foundation recommends the JPEG working group not to create images protection system DRM but rather to develop open standards-based PKI (Public Key Infrastructure). Because nothing good will come of what has been started …
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