Furthermore, their response times are pretty awesome (if they are in fact true):
> Van Rooyen claims once a leaked copy containing a bounty hits the dark web, it takes just five minutes on average for the bounty to be claimed and Custos and its client to be alerted. On social networks it takes 42 seconds; and offline, like if a movie is copied or shared on a DVD or USB drive, it’s 28 minutes.
- Finding and downloading the file is more work than just monitoring a set of bitcoin wallets. If the file gets leaked multiple times, and some of them end up in more obscure places, it might be much harder to find them.
- The regular watermark can perhaps be defeated by tech-savvy pirates, but the bitcoin watermark would need the leaker to be tech-savvy. I think leakers are selected by the content owner, and not in general for their tech-savviness, so this might be pretty safe.