The issue of the ease of copying off a system is an issue I had thought of, and I also thought of a couple solutions. We could have some sort of "fee" to gain member ship, that fee being either a manditory improvement interval (teams involved must submit some new improvement every specified interval), or that teams involved must upload/supply some sort of CAD mechanism of their own design.

This would facilitate constant improvement and new designing, which was also what I was aiming for when I thought the thing up.