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Computers, Court, and Fingerprints
Degrees writes "Should Law Enforcement be allowed to Photoshop fingerprints? That is the question posed in this article in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. The suspect is charged with murder, and the evidence was circumstantial before the fingerprint enhancment. At the end, the crime scene investigators say they want encrypted cameras. The implication is they want DRM-enabled digital cameras with software for full audit-trail capability. Would that make the Photoshoping more credible? Would DRM cameras be a good thing for Joe Citizen?"
What is Photoshopping suppose to mean? I am sure they are not using Adobe Photoshop to clean up a finger print image.
The DRM should be not be on the cameras, but on the subject ! According to the LAMAA (Landscapes And Monuments Association of America), five billion pictures of copyrighted monuments and landscapes are illicitly taken each year. (actually it's three billion pictures, but some of them are printed on posters, and Monument Valley counts as two, being a monument AND a landscape).
No royalties are ever paid for these pictures. Some hippies are claiming "fair use" because they paid the entrance fees to the park/monument.
A big part of them are shot with a "friend" in front of the monument/landscape. By the use of such circumvention devices, the photonic pirates claim they are creating a new work, supposedly protected itself, in fact pure piracy. Such a circumvention device should be outlawed.
Therefore, the LAMAA (Landscapes And Monuments Association of America) demands that the SSSCA be amended to make DRM on new monuments and landscape mandatories. Such a device would render all but these so-called "friends" black on the photographic device and thus encourage the fine LAMAA members into providing exciting new monuments and landscapes, like the upcoming Senator Hollings Memorial, the Shores of Montana (thanks to our president's Kyoto enforcement), or the new World Trade Center.