Protecting a single image is far more difficult. Video and audio are &quot;protectable&quot; to the extent they are because there is a really low expectation of how they have to work. Start playback, stop playback - that&#x27;s about it. No one expects to pre-render, use video as a buffer for other things, etc. You can realistically render video direct to the screen via hardware, in a protected path.<p>Doing the same for still images adds a ton of work for little payoff.  And it still doesn&#x27;t prevent anything. At least in video if the system remains uncracked, it&#x27;s hard to make a copy. You can&#x27;t just point a video camera at a screen and get good results.<p>Whereas for a still image? Pretty easy to reconstruct the exact pixels, 100%.<p>Anyways, this is doomed entirely. They provide the case of social media sites stripping off metadata. Well guess what, if your DRM is gonna prevent them from modifying the image, it&#x27;s gonna prevent them from loading the image in the first place. Even if the JPEG folks add it, it has zero chance of going anywhere. You&#x27;d need support from the hardware, OS, and on up. (Like video has.)