Only if you can access the original locked file first in its original size. This may be tied to an account you have to register letting them know you viewed it.

I'm sure there's a creative way to lock them down. But it's kind of pointless. They'd do better to simply create a new locked format.

That doesnt affect you - that stuff isnt neccesarily public domain outside the USA. Its about the USA actually (finally) trying to fall in line with the Berne convention - and thusly giving actual copyright powers to the creators - not those that put out the "work-for-hire" cotracts over there.

Example - if Spiderman had been created under the Berne convention terms, Steve Ditko would have been the primary copyright holder - not Marvel - and Stan Lee would have little say in the matter at all.

I guess we know what's next for GOG after the movies fiasco.

Maybe in the future we'll need a subscription even to see images.. lol..

Nah, the simple solution...

Fuck entertainment! Drop down what you use to the bare minimum, notice how much more money you have because you aren't buying entertainment, or it's hardware. Then notice how much complaining there is because the movie/game/magazine/other industries are dying because they pushed DRM too much and won't blame it on DRM...

You just got DRM`d ;)

I can only ... lol :)
This will miserably fail, prolly

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_file_formats#WEBP

time to move on to webp and png? webp doesn't seem to be well supported in software or used often online. also it seems to load slower than jpeg files in irfanview for some reason.

png can already replace jpeg in most cases except when you need a much smaller filesize. like when attaching images on gog.com's forums.

PNG also supports the 8bit palette mode, with proper color selection and dithering you can get images that look really impressive even if they are 256 or fewer colors... So don't discount PNG for smaller files just yet. :P

Anything that can be rendered on a person's computer can be saved. The only question is how much work it is, but something like this will get bypassed readily. People need to give up this fruitless Don Quixote quest to protect things and concentrate on just adding value and not putting obstacles between people's wallets and whatever they're offering, if money is their aim. Things like this only hurt honest customers and consumers.

Nice. It will be nice having an all-purpose format.

Those, who are behind this idea, have less than zero knowledge on how computers work. Do they even know about such tools as "Print Screen" button?

That's very expensive change :)) They will have to sponsor changes in politis of at least 3 companies - NVidia, AMD and Intel. But then it would break functionality of many other programs like Photoshop, etc.

Just like in all such DRM cases, it serves no purpose other than to annoy end user. JPG is bad format for any professionally made images anyway, so all this DRM campaign is just a waste of time.