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Suppose you own the rights to a jpeg. And I apply a simple algorithm that increments every hex value. So 00 becomes 01 and so on. The gibberish images it spits out would be so different then your original image that you wouldn't have any claim to them at all.

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So I may create a tool that is capable of "incrementing every hex value" of an image, and also of "decrementing every hex value", and than distribute any of your images after "incrementing the hex values", together with said tool, right?

Or maybe it would be enough to just zip your image, to be allowed to distribute it? In the end the bytes I would distribute than "would be so different then your original image that you wouldn't have any claim to them at all", right?

I encourage you to go get a copy of the latest hollywood blockbuster, apply your transformation, share it on the internet and see if the courts agree with your copyright hack.

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