It’s not DRM. It’s like EXIF metadata. You can strip it anytime you want, and it will often get stripped in practice even if you don’t want (e.g. screenshots, naive conversions, metadata-stripping upload services, etc.). It’s entirely optional and does not require any new software to view the images, only to view and manipulate the metadata.
On its own, it doesn’t tell you much about the image except that specific people/organizations edited and approved it, with specific tools. If you don’t trust those people/orgs, then you shouldn’t trust the photo. I mean, even if it says it came straight from a Nikon camera…so what? People can lie with cameras, too.
I wrote a bit more about this in another thread at https://lemmy.sdf.org/comment/5812616 about a month ago, if you’re interested. I haven’t really played with it yet, but there’s open-source software out there you can try.
It’s not DRM. It’s like EXIF metadata. You can strip it anytime you want, and it will often get stripped in practice even if you don’t want (e.g. screenshots, naive conversions, metadata-stripping upload services, etc.). It’s entirely optional and does not require any new software to view the images, only to view and manipulate the metadata.
On its own, it doesn’t tell you much about the image except that specific people/organizations edited and approved it, with specific tools. If you don’t trust those people/orgs, then you shouldn’t trust the photo. I mean, even if it says it came straight from a Nikon camera…so what? People can lie with cameras, too.
I wrote a bit more about this in another thread at https://lemmy.sdf.org/comment/5812616 about a month ago, if you’re interested. I haven’t really played with it yet, but there’s open-source software out there you can try.