To identify the source of leaks, producers began using invisible digital watermarking. If a movie leaked from a specific theater or a preview screening, the watermark would reveal the exact seat number and time, allowing police to track the person who recorded it.
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Most of these sites hosted their files on offshore servers (often in Russia or the Netherlands) where copyright laws were laxer. This shielded the physical hardware from immediate Indian law enforcement raids. To identify the source of leaks, producers began
