WoW Screenshots tracked

Post by **Atelo** » Tue Sep 11, 2012 7:09 pm

It was discovered that Blizzard has been embedding watermarks with user info into Screenshots since about 2008.

Just thought it was interesting. I guess it's to catch people hacking, running private servers, or other forms of cheating.

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/waterm ... 17522.html

Post by **Bees** » Wed Sep 12, 2012 3:15 pm

I suspect it's mostly about leaked alpha/beta screenshots

Blizzard has sued some private server operators (ones who charged money to play), but hasn't really gone after players who connect to private servers.

Post by **Atelo** » Wed Sep 12, 2012 4:35 pm

Bees wrote:I suspect it's mostly about leaked alpha/beta screenshots

Blizzard has sued some private server operators (ones who charged money to play), but hasn't really gone after players who connect to private servers.

Yeah that was the other one I was thinking, just forgot to list it. It's good to know for people who are in Beta and post screens.