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Saw this article on Reddit. Apparently the JPEG is considering blockchain to insert DRM in the photo format.
The Joint Photographic Experts Group is a working group of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). They're best known for the JPEG standard for image compression, and for various related image standards.
They had their 78th quarterly meeting from 27 January to 2 February 2018 — with the press release afterwards prominently namedropping "blockchain."
The Twitter reaction was "lol what," and even the cryptocurrency press ignored it — but there's more to this than slapping on a buzzword, and it's not good. They seem to think they can advance the cause of DRMed JPEGs with a bit of applied blockchain.
The Quarterly meeting and official announcement were back in February, so this article is a bit behind, but I had not heard anything of this.
As a photog who routinely plasters watermarks all over photos of my children before releasing them to the wilds of social media I can sympathize with the desire to protect photos, but on the surface this seems an odd way to go about it. For now, though, it's just something they're "exploring".
(Score: 2) by edIII on Monday August 13 2018, @07:55PM
You could turn lead into gold though, given the right circumstances. Not saying it is easy, but it should be possible at some point with technology. Actually, it has already been done, but not at any scale that would make money, or provide useful amounts of gold.
I actually have a lot more faith in alchemy than DRM. Alchemy at its core, is beneficial to humanity. DRM? Will never provide any benefit to humanity, nor to the people attempting to control others with it.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.