Beware of Yahoo's "Smush It"

Yahoo has released a new utility to crunch down the size of image files and convert them between formats. Part of how this utility achieves file size reduction is through removing all color profile and copyright management information. That second part is what really creates a problem. The DMCA explicitly forbids the removal of any CMI (Copyright Management Information). Read more details about this on John Harrington's blog "Shame On You, Yahoo!".


Walter Rowe Photography
Columbia, Maryland - USA

Shame on MySpace too...

How come MySpace gets away with it then? They change the file name and everything. :(

Faye Weekly Photography
Advanced Amateur
Waldorf, Maryland