{"id":182339,"date":"2015-10-15T18:20:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T23:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/10\/15\/what-a-stupid-fing-idea\/"},"modified":"2015-10-15T18:20:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-15T23:20:00","slug":"what-a-stupid-fing-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/10\/15\/what-a-stupid-fing-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"What a Stupid F%$#ing Idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/XmLh7.jpg\" rel=\"lytebox\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/XmLh7.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a>If I had a time machine, I would go back in time to find the father of whoever came up with the idea of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2015\/10\/14\/jpeg-copy-protection\/\">adding copy protections to JPEG images<\/a>, and kick that man in the nuts so hard that he would be rendered sterile:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">So much for hopes that the tech industry would back away from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2015\/08\/17\/windows-10-rejects-old-game-drm\/\">copyright protection<\/a> any time soon. The Joint Photographic Experts Group recently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpeg.org\/items\/20150910_privacy_security_summary.html\">launched<\/a>  a Privacy &amp; Security initiative that potentially brings digital  rights management (DRM) to regular JPEG images, not just the specialized  JPEG 2000 format. The proposal could protect your privacy by encrypting  metadata (such as where you took a photo), but it could also prevent  you from copying or opening some pictures. Needless to say, that opens  up a can of worms when it comes to fair use rights. If someone slapped  DRM on a photo, you couldn&#8217;t use it for news, research or remixed art &#8212;  many of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2013\/06\/27\/imgur-meme-generator\/\">internet memes<\/a> you know wouldn&#8217;t be possible. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is so unbelievably stupid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I had a time machine, I would go back in time to find the father of whoever came up with the idea of adding copy protections to JPEG images, and kick that man in the nuts so hard that he would be rendered sterile: So much for hopes that the tech industry would back &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1134,1213,997,1109,989,982,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-copyright","category-fair-use","category-internet","category-ip","category-software","category-stupid","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182339"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}