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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.

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[–] pankuleczkapl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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...

[–] Fitzsimmons@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 month ago

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.