People involved in professional imaging tend to know it's from a playboy magazine. Nobody cared, and Lena was generally celebrated in that community, still is

People involved in professional imaging tend to know it's from a playboy magazine. Nobody cared, and Lena was generally celebrated in that community, still is in fact. No amount of temporary blogger complaining is going to change that because they completely forget the reason that image is used. It is very difficult to reproduce/compress/etc and while it's certainly possible to use alternative images (though the image provided by the original post is a very poor substitute), it's simply easier to use Lena because people know where the problem areas are going to be if something is awry.