DMCA Prevents Photoshop Support of Nikon Camera

Will writes "PhotoshopNews.com reports that the risk of getting sued under the DMCA prevents Adobe from fully supporting the raw file format of Nikon's top professional camera Nikon D2X. The file format contains encrypted white balance information that is necessary to render the image correctly and while the encryption can and has been broken, Adobe fears getting sued under the DMCA if they decrypt the data."

Comments

Not about the cameras

[doublem]

This is about getting Adobe to pay licensing fees. Making high end consumers scream at Adobe for not supporting the high end cameras their egos MADE them buy is a good way to do it.

Don;t think for a moment that Nikon will take the heat for this, Adobe will get grief for not supporting a "simple file format" and Nikon will get off with some insults on Slashdot and a fat licensing fee from Adobe.

I support software that is currently dealing with the "Users want RAW and we don't read all the RAW formats yet" battle. Trust me, the people who spend $5k on a camera never blame the hardware if they can blame software instead.