commodore84

I remember reading about a small French movie theater where an unusually large number of cams came from, and they were able to track it because of the digital watermarks. The MPAA even sent agents to the theater to observe, and cams still came out of the theater. The guy was legendary. Obviously they leaned hard on the staff, so they had personnel in each screening, and they just couldn't pin the guy down. I wonder from your description of the guy who killed himself if this wasn't MaVen.

Where were the watermarks and how were they released? Also, where was the first place the guy that finally generated the xvid sent it? FTP to somewhere? Rapidshare? To a 0day tracker from which it eventually trickled down to the others? I'm a member of several 0day sites, and I've always been curious where the uploader to that site gets the files (in all those cursed split RAR archives).

How did you make these? Is there an application? They are so impressive.

What are some things they've gone on to do?