..my data are mine. My camera is mine,....
..my data are mine. My camera is mine,. My shots are mine. Much as Nikon etc would love to be in my workflow imposing control and siphoning off money all along the way, they cannot hope to do that.
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Michael W – Mon, 2005/04/25 – 8:53am
In the US, under the DCMA, this might not be true. The RIAA...
In the US, under the DCMA, this might not be true. The RIAA and MPAA got this disaster passed a couple of years ago and it wasn't for their customer's gain. It's good for nothing but to provide companies like Nikon a stick to hit on the geeks out there who might have the audacity to attempt to infiltrate the data. The legal system is inexorably skewed to the rich and corporate world. If Nikon decided that you were violating it's "rights" it could sue you and then you would have to defend yourself.
Most common every day people don't have the financial wherewithal to mount an effective defense against this travesty. In most cases you are forced to comply with their wishes.
If you think I'm kidding here, I'm not. Do a search on Dmitry Skylarov to see what Adobe did to him for having the audacity of presenting a paper on the technical merits of Adobe's protection of it's ebooks. What he did was ENTIRELY within the laws of his country, but he made the mistake of presenting his findings to a conference in this country.