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I don't get it. Any 'damage' to the studio happens when the movie is publicly leaked, at that point just download the copy yourself and check for a watermark, t

• Matt3o12_ 9y ago
  For this, the company has to first find the leak version. This means they need people to monitor all kind of sites for this material. With the bitcoin method, the company only needs to monitor a bunch of bitcoin wallets and, as soon as a transfer is made, the are aware of the leak immediately (with much less men power. Furthermore they also don’t need people who have access to those “private” torrent exchanges). Furthermore, their response times are pretty awesome (if they are in fact true): > Van Rooyen claims once a leaked copy containing a bounty hits the dark web, it takes just five minutes on average for the bounty to be claimed and Custos and its client to be alerted. On social networks it takes 42 seconds; and offline, like if a movie is copied or shared on a DVD or USB drive, it’s 28 minutes.
• philh 9y ago
  I was wondering about that. I had two thoughts, neither of which I'm confident is very significant: - Finding and downloading the file is more work than just monitoring a set of bitcoin wallets. If the file gets leaked multiple times, and some of them end up in more obscure places, it might be much harder to find them. - The regular watermark can perhaps be defeated by tech-savvy pirates, but the bitcoin watermark would need the leaker to be tech-savvy. I think leakers are selected by the content owner, and not in general for their tech-savviness, so this might be pretty safe.