PC Paint Shop Pro has counterfeit blocking too
Found on The Inquirer on Saturday, 10 January 2004
It's not just Adobe that has implemented the blocking of currency note scanning, it appears.
A reader tells the INQUIRER that, curious about the restriction on copying banknotes, he attempted to scan in a £5 note using a TWAIN source and Paint Shop Pro version 8.
This suggests that many of the most recent updates to software have implemented a voluntary restriction on scanning money.
It looks like more and more jump on that wagon. As you can read in this article, those who legally want to reproduce banknotes can get images which can be opened in Photoshop CS. I guess it won't take long until those appear in popular filesharing networks. Or someone will simply create a patch...