Copy-protection for everybody! (Score 1)

I think the most striking thing that this has done is that it has now created a copy-protection scheme that anybody can use to prevent other people from editing/using/printing their images. Forget watermarks, which only have limited support in a very few select programs... as detection for this becomes ubiquitous in electronic publishing devices and software, what is to stop anybody from using it wherever and for whatever reason they like?

All it takes is someone to reduce the pattern to it's minimum allowable component to be detected and distribute the pattern for anybody to include in their images.

I really expect this is going to be massively abused.