Naver Webtoon, for one, has rolled out an in-house tool named Toon Radar that embeds invisible watermarks in each chapter. When a pirated copy turns up online, the watermark allows the company to trace it back to the specific account that downloaded it.
Even the cheapest versions of entertainment were taken from the populace. Comics and movies started out as cheap entertainment for the masses. Just to spite all of those greedy corporations and tech overlords I am going to start becoming interested in, and having fun with, a stick and a rock. My stick and rock would never be offline or stop working. Of course, after submitting this comment the AI spy-bots will pick it up and inform their blood sac overlords and very soon all sticks and rocks will be bought up by big shareholders.
There is no universe where I’ll pay to read digital comics, sell me physical media you dipshits.
This seems like it would be very easy to circumvent
Yep. You’ll need 3 accounts, to decipher the canary watermark, and implement countermeasures.
Some teams already do.
But, they still use FashCorp.😒
Well, the thing is even if you trace it back to an account, what do you do then? Only a single pirate with a bit of opsec knowledge needs to have an account with e.g. a stolen credit card or whatever, and then they can just leak everything with no consequences…
Still makes it effectively 1000x harder than just having the same account forever. Because now you need a new stolen credit card account for every new release.
booooo
