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Centralized kill switches for information? Sounds like the dream of a tyrannical government, pretty dystopian and not something anyone should want.

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no - a file format (or something else) that enforces rights of the owner of the data.

It’s all the same. For it to be possible for an image to stop you from taking a photo of it, your camera would need to be complicit in the scheme. That is just fodder for tyranny.

Nobody publishes RAW files, you edit them and publish a jpeg. That means you don’t need the camera to be complicit, you just need to add that DRM step to your editing process.

I don’t think you understand what I’m saying. As long as you can capture an image of something, be that by capturing your screen buffer a.k.a. screenshoting, or just pulling out your camera and taking a picture, any DRM scheme for images is circumventable by a child unless your device being complicit in the censorship.

The core point of the article is an image that was scanned in the 1970s. Preventing the spread of something like that requires a system where your devices don’t do what you want them to.

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