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I downloaded the movie after seeing it in theatre to once again enjoy it from the comfort of my home. Seeing 2160p, I thought it's going to be a webcam rip but the title says webrip. Where is this leaked from that has Dolby Vision on a movie still in theatre?

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[–] quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I'm really curious about the sanitation process. About the methods used to identify each copy, it has to be one of those cases of security by obscurity. I think it is a fascinating topic that I know nothing about.

[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

IIRC digital cinema files are usually DRM locked in a special format and are also imperceptibly watermarked somewhere throughout the video. They're distributed to cinemas usually on physical hard drives/SSD's. I don't know anything about the security details other than that, off to YouTube it is!

[–] ClassIsOver@hexbear.net 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Xbox apparently used to encode a console's serial number into the loading animation of the Xbox logo in the corner of your screen to figure out who broke NDAs within the company.

[–] Chulk@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Same, it makes me think about Reality Winner being caught because they knew which printer the documents came from.

The pages from the NSA's printers came with invisible tracking dots. This is a common feature in modern printers for forensics investigations

https://www.cnet.com/news/privacy/reality-winner-nsa-leak-russian-hacking-printer-tracking-dots/

[–] peeonyou@hexbear.net 1 points 2 months ago

which is why your yellow ink/toner typically runs out before the other colors

[–] mecen@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

On any color printer there are yellow dots, which have plenty of data.

[–] swab148@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There's also ways to obfuscate them.

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 2 points 2 months ago

Couldn't one just take a B/W photocopy?