this post was submitted on 01 Nov 2023
157 points (95.9% liked)
Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ
55072 readers
432 users here now
⚓ Dedicated to the discussion of digital piracy, including ethical problems and legal advancements.
Rules • Full Version
1. Posts must be related to the discussion of digital piracy
2. Don't request invites, trade, sell, or self-promote
3. Don't request or link to specific pirated titles, including DMs
4. Don't submit low-quality posts, be entitled, or harass others
Loot, Pillage, & Plunder
📜 c/Piracy Wiki (Community Edition):
💰 Please help cover server costs.
Ko-fi | Liberapay |
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
How would that work? And if it was being done I’m sure it would have been discovered already. I mean it is just video.
Basically small deliberate changes to the brightness or hue of chunks or even individual pixels scattered across the frame. Netflix would have the original, and would know where to look for the changes that embed the user ID data, or whatever.
They just get a copy of the leaked video, locate the ID, and take the user to court or ban them.
I'm not great at explaining it, so look up image stenography to get an idea of what I mean.
Anyway, I don't have any proof they do that, but I guess I always assumed they did, because... why not?
It's possible with stegenography!