Sleuthing from public sources to figure out how the Hateful Eight leaker was caught
(World News Science)

In 2014, Quentin Tarantino sued Gawker for publishing a link to a leaked pre-release screener of his movie `The Hateful Eight.` The ensuing court-case revealed that the screeners Tarantino`s company had released had some forensic `traitor tracing` features to enable them to track down the identities of people who leaked copies. Working from court records, as well as documents from the North Korea/Sony hack, a patent lawsuit against Tarantino`s forensics company, and the forensic company`s own patent filings, Matthew Fuller and Nikita Mazurov do an incredible job of sleuthing to uncover the interior, technical workings of the secretive world of digital copyright-enforcement forensics. The...