How easy is it to defeat a copyrighted image

[Acorn]

Seems effective enough. I like the pattern because the viewer can fully evaluate the merits of the picture but it's rendered useless for further use.

Thank you Boy.

I'll talk about the pattern in a bit.

I opened the link in MS Edge as my development browser was replaying the cache.
I set the Zoom to 100% to view at the right scale.
I then right-clicked over the image but could not see the normal Save option - this is part of the design.
So, I then just did a Web Capture > Capture Full Page and copied into my XDA.

I then cropped out the edges that were outside the picture and scaled to 1200px wide.
I managed a depth of 760.5px, close, but lost dpi density getting only 91dpi instead of an expected 96dpi.
I tried Capture Area and managed 1200x760px @ 96dpi.
I therefore had something I could hack.
Anyone could try with any browser and Window's Snip.

I then applied some CSS: <style> #lions { filter: blur(1px); } </style>
I had to increment up to a blur of 2.9px to 'remove' the pattern.
Luckily, the image was rather blurry by this point so it would be hard to pass off as anything other than a rip-off.

I tried cloning and a variety of offset transparencies.
I tried Magic Erase and its Cloning - mostly a mess ensued but it did well with the copyright notice.
Colour erase was no better.
All far too time consuming.
If you had the time, you can pixel paint away almost anything.

Ideas?

Acorn