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Originally Posted by LirvA
I don't get the stuff with the screen shots. Is it common to take a lot of screenshots in WOW or something? Or do they mean shots of single frames during your game play?
Quite common. I almost always forget there's a screenshot folder in the install directory tho and just paste into paint when id need a SS.
But the story goes that as of the Burning Crusade patch where they added screen shot capabilities into the game, they inserted code without people agreeing to it that puts watermarks in screenshots the game generates, but somehow it's only for any quality of SS under 10 (you can change quality in game with a command).
How someone "found out?" A crazy process of screwing with the jpgs and repeatedly distorting them until this, uh, "code" came to light.
Some people think it's just jpg artifacting brought about through the manipulation process, which might explain why the highest quality doesn't do it, but I'm sure blizzard has a nefarious reason for only making their software kick out watermarks on some image qualities.
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Originally Posted by LirvA
Lets not turn this into the musician neighbor thread, but yes, some companies don't like it when you break copyright law and steal their product.