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Re:Liberating out-of-copyright photos from SmartFrame's DRM by adolph on Sunday May 15, 2022 @05:09PM (#31391153)
This is not Digital Rights Management (DRM).

At best SmartFrame's website claims "Protect your images from right-clicks, drag-and-drop actions and other theft attempts – even site-scraping bots."[0] They are using vanilla JavaScript to perform this "protection" not DRM.

The author's claim of an authorization header is not convincing. That header identifies the site pulling the images and using the SmartFrame API, allowing them to do the "Detailed image analytics."[0]

0. https://smartframe.io/content-owners/

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Re:Liberating out-of-copyright photos from SmartFrame's DRM by robin_reala on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @02:04AM (#31406560)
The request fails if you change the header, and it’s the same header across multiple sites. So it doesn’t really do anything for stats.
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