Comment by avhon1
3 years ago
It absolutely is DRM, just a different form than media encryption. It's a purely-digital mechanism of enforcing rights.
3 years ago
It absolutely is DRM, just a different form than media encryption. It's a purely-digital mechanism of enforcing rights.
It doesn’t enforce any rights. It modifies the actual image. Humans and computers still have equal, open access to it.
It’s designed to restrict the purposes for which the consumer can use the work. It is exactly like DRM in this way.
To be clear, you can still train AI with these images. Nothing is stopping you.
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How does it stop you from using an image however you want?
That's true of almost all DRM, isn't it? Even for the most annoying form that is always-online DRM, everyone is provided the same access to the bytes that form a game. You and I have the same bytes of game.
It's the purpose of some of those bytes that turns it into DRM.
No, it's not the same. The game is non-functional without the proper keys/authorization whereas images run through this algorithm are still images that anyone and any computer can view in the same manner without any authentication.
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