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Or, just add an insignificant name (changing someone's name might run you afoul of contracts, even in a review copy).
by themoonbus 11y ago
Or, just add an insignificant name (changing someone's name might run you afoul of contracts, even in a review copy).
- TazeTSchnitzel 11y agoAdd a series of random names in the middle of Special Thanks. The names are in a list stored somewhere, so are actually (large base) digits of a serial number.
- CHY872 11y agoTrivially detectable. Find two screeners. Search for different frames. Oh look, the credits are different! Let's delete the credits to be safe! You want to make it so that the entire binary content of the film looks different for each person, so there can be no point of reference apart from what it looks like (which is the same).
- themoonbus 11y agoSomeone already brought this up, but the chance of a leaker getting hold of two screeners would be very low. But yes, once it was discovered that information was being embedded in the credits, those would be cut.
- TazeTSchnitzel 11y agoOh of course. I don't doubt something more sophisticated would be used in practice.
- shiro 11y agoYou're right about changing. Credit is very big deal for those who worked on it... But in this wide world there are fans who painstakingly go through the credit and put the text online. Sometimes even special thanks. So a fake name could be detected, and once the m.o. is detected, in this networked age, everyone would know it and people will start looking for it.