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Apparently state level actors can defeat the watermarking... > “There’s nothing else like it in the world,” Esteban Israel, beIN’s executive director of techno

• akersten 8y ago
  The image of some crack antipiracy team hanging out in a war room is just so ridiculous to me. They say it's an individual subscriber's stream being rebroadcast, who has somehow managed to remove the watermark? Alright, just blank the stream for a few frames for half of your customers while watching the illicit stream. Binary search until you find the culprit subscriber. Even if you had 100 million subscribers it would only take 27 iterations to find. No one is going to mind or probably even notice that their screen flickers a few times. Instead they've put together a team of highly-paid professionals bumbling about that they can't possibly figure out who is behind all this. While it may be slightly more complicated in the real world, I suspect it's simply a case of justifying their own overpaid positions.