JPG incorrect brightness

Whenever I load a jpg-encoded image from a WWW instance, it becomes far brighter than if loaded inside the editor. PNG-images don't seem to have this problem. I'm guessing it may have something to do with linear color space.

Any ideas how this can be circumvented? Encoding to PNG and reloading it again works, but that feels like such a hack.

Code (CSharp):

1. WWW www = new WWW("http://some.ip.address/someimage.jpg");
2.  
3. yield return www;
4.  
5. Texture2D tex = www.texture;
6.  
7. // This hack works:
8. // tex = new Texture2D(2,2);
9. // tex.LoadImage(www.texture.EncodeToPNG());
10.  
11. Sprite sprite = Sprite.Create(tex, new Rect(0, 0, tex.width, tex.height), new Vector2(.5f, .5f));
12.  
13. // reference to Image instance
14. image.sprite = sprite;

 

I'm not seeing any difference: I modified the above to flop between the JPEG and PNG versions a few times a second and there was zero pixel changes that I could see. Can you try tinkering with the colorspace your JPEG is saved in? That stuff usually doesn't make a difference, but perhaps this does?

 

edit:
Oh, sorry, I misread that.
Sure I guess I could try tinkering with the image. But should that really be necessary? The majority of images on the internet are saved with gamma so Unity should be able to deal with it.

Setting color space to gamma inside Unity fixes the issue, but I want linear...