stifled creativity

i don't write for three months and then i post twice in the same day; frikin' awesome!

so i just read on slashdot about how adobe won't support high end nikon cameras for fear of breaking the dmca (the cameras use encryption for white balance data in the raw format). just another example of how the dmca is so misused that it stifles creativity. sure, the reason it was implemented in the first place was under good intentions, but like so many things that start off with good intentions, it got screwed up. now, all it's good for is lawsuits. the dmca and the ever changing copyright laws just stifle creativity. but on the same token, i should put blame on nikon in this case as well. the only reason nikon would encrypt whitebalance metadata in raw files is to (1) force the high end user to do color corrections on the camera or (2) force the high end user to use nikon's capturing app. in either case, i think they're simply alienating users for the sake of profit. greed greed greed.