Re:Custos is using Bitcoin to turn digital pirates against e...
by pavel_lishin on Monday July 17, 2017 @10:57AM
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How many advance copies do they send out? Paying a thousand dollars on advance copies of a big blockbuster estimated to earn millions is nothing.
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Re:Custos is using Bitcoin to turn digital pirates against e...
by jakobegger on Monday July 17, 2017 @11:25AM
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According to the article "tens of thousands" of advance copies are sent out. So if you want the reward per leak to be $10, the cost would be hundreds of thousands of dollars. Maybe that's worth it to a studio, but it definitely is a significant junk of money.
Re:Custos is using Bitcoin to turn digital pirates against e...
by krisleipus on Monday July 17, 2017 @11:40AM
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Studio pays out that amount in case every single receiver of advance copy leaks it, is it the case? I would guess that there are only a few who leak it. Also, I think, studio can start legal action against the leakers, so it could collect fines in case of leak.
Re:Custos is using Bitcoin to turn digital pirates against e...
by jakobegger on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @02:34AM
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The problem is that they must pay the bounty for every leak in advance! (As I said, they could redeem unclaimed bounties after some time, but they must put up the full amount in advance, and are thus vulnerable to exchange rate fluctuations)