Digital image protection

What are other togs doing to protect their images online?
Obviously the baby stuff like adding a watermark layer in photoshop is useless and so is the "disabling right click in html" trick. I was wondering more about digital watermark solutions like digimarc provide
Would love to hear everyone else's views
(and apple, seriously you gonna fix the EXIF export bug in 1.1 or what?)

You can spend a huge amount of time and money adding speed-bumps but there really isn't a way to get around the fact that anyone who can see something can copy it (anyone who claims otherwise is at best uninformed). Just think about how much effort the music industry has gone to, how many thousands of lawsuits and the enormous ill-will they've generated simply to get us to the point where original-quality bootlegs are reported to be in circulation within a few minutes of hitting one of the commercial stores.
So - we're basically left with two options: figuring out how to make money without controlled distribution (probably by making it easy for honest people to stay that way by giving them faster and cheaper options) or simply not circulating anything valuable in digital format. It's going to be interesting to see how people combine the two approaches.

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