To answer LL's question, it's because of shady sites based in other countries that have been stealing our pics from ECCIE and wording from our bios to create profiles without our consent, and they refuse (in a very RUDE way, to boot) to take them down at our request.
I do agree that watermarking should also be done as an added measure, but I believe they have stolen watermarked pics as well.
See
this thread for what prompted this action to be taken. No, it's not fool-proof and the pics can still be stolen if someone really wants them, but it just makes it a little less convenient for 'em.
I'm still not sure how sites like that make any money....it's not like they have a large membership, and they aren't an agency so they aren't getting a cut of the action. How is this profitable??
Anyway, sorry for the hijack. Thanks St. Chris!