&gt; Would this stop me from screenshotting the image, saving it as a .png, and distributing that? Because I and many people would do just that.<p>The &quot;fix&quot; for this with video was mandating a new &quot;secure path* signal protocol which rendered all existing HDTVs and receivers and related equipment obsolete.<p>This is happening again right now with 4k for those who wonder. Yay.<p>Oh. And the OS would need to enforce the secure signal path thing at kernel level, with GPU drivers having to support this.<p>Pretty much a crazy amount of work to prevent piracy for everyone involved, except those who want their content &quot;protected&quot;. And it still doesn&#x27;t work. So all that effort was utterly wasted.<p>But yay, let&#x27;s repeat it!<p>&gt; I&#x27;m not sure what this DRM would solve, if anything, other than pissing off users and giving photographers and other digital-sharing artists a false sense of security<p>You pretty much just described all DRM. I don&#x27;t see how this is different on any philosophical level.