It has been a brutal few months for readers of pirated comics and manga. On Monday, Newtokki, a major illegal webtoon site in Korea, abruptly shut down. In a no

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.

    • alapakala@quokk.auEnglish
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      14 days ago

      Yep. You’ll need 3 accounts, to decipher the canary watermark, and implement countermeasures.

      Some teams already do.

      But, they still use FashCorp.😒