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Re:Game of Thrones leak and watermark: a stupid tracking system by tbabb on Monday April 13, 2015 @01:30PM (#9369032)
I will say that steganography is definitely in use already, at least on feature films. (It's particularly easy in animation, where literally anything can be changed seamlessly). A film pirated from a theater (even by a camera pointing at a screen) can easily be traced to the exact theater and showing of the movie, and IR cameras in the theater permit authorities to identify the exact individual with the camera.

In short, don't try to film a movie in a theater; they will find you.

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Re:Game of Thrones leak and watermark: a stupid tracking system by azakai on Monday April 13, 2015 @02:03PM (#9369255)
Yes. The author of the article is barging through an open door: It's very likely that those Game of Thrones episodes had individual hidden watermarking, and that using those they can tell exactly who leaked it.

The author jumped to the conclusion that those don't exist, apparently because they aren't visible (but that's the point!) and that there is a visible watermark which the author apparently assumed was the only one (but it almost certainly isn't).

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