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Stack surfaces
Media integrity · Production
Programmatic rights enforcement,
on the open web.
Forensic codec and anti-piracy stack for multi-tenant media operators.
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Tenant boundary
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Cross-tenant evidence
Category
Forensic codec + anti-piracy infrastructure
Components
Codec · forensic watermark · takedown automation · negotiation · radar
Mode
Multi-tenant by design
Stage
Merged to main, in production
What Imprint is
Programmatic rights enforcement for the open web
Imprint is built for operators whose business depends on a piece of media not being everywhere. It is a stack, not a single product: forensic codec, watermark, takedown automation, negotiation surface, and active radar all live inside the same multi-tenant boundary. Each tenant sees its own evidence and its own enforcement; the platform shares only the infrastructure.
Stack surfaces
Five surfaces, one tenant boundary
Imprint is opinionated about what an anti-piracy stack should contain — and where the multi-tenant boundary should sit.
Forensic codec
Encoding designed so any leak can be traced back to the issuing key without breaking playback quality.
Forensic watermark
A robust watermarking layer that survives common re-encodes, screen-captures, and cropping.
Takedown automation
A queue-and-evidence surface that turns detections into compliant notices, audited end to end.
Negotiation
Where the platform identifies the actor, a structured negotiation surface routes the case through escalation states.
Pirate radar
An active radar tracks where flagged content is reappearing, so enforcement is informed by evidence rather than by intuition.
Robustness budget
Watermark survival, by transform
Robustness against common transforms is committed to as a measurable budget. Releases gate on it — not on a marketing number.
re-encode (H.264, q=24) 0.98 ≥ 0.90
screen-capture (1080p) 0.93 ≥ 0.85
crop + rescale 0.89 ≥ 0.80
colour-shift + brightness 0.95 ≥ 0.85
aggressive compression 0.84 ≥ 0.75
survival = fraction of frames where the embedded fingerprint can be recovered after the transform.
Programmatic enforcement
The takedown workflow, one tenant
Detections route into a single workflow with takedown, negotiation, and escalation states. Each notice carries its own audit trail.
detected
47
open cases
case-0101
case-0102
case-0103
evidence
31
open cases
case-0201
case-0202
case-0203
notice sent
23
open cases
case-0301
case-0302
case-0303
negotiation
9
open cases
case-0401
case-0402
case-0403
resolved
18
open cases
case-0501
case-0502
case-0503
Active radar
Where flagged content is reappearing
The radar is informed by evidence, not by intuition. Zones are abstract — real coordinates and operator identities stay inside the tenant boundary.
radar · tenant-7c8e1a · live
7 active zones
strength ≥ 3 — escalated strength 1–2 — watching
How Imprint got to production
From research codec to multi-tenant stack
- 01
Codec
Forensic encode-decode loop
The codec is taken from research to production grade, with quality regressions tracked under load and a tenant-scoped key surface.
- 02
Watermark
Watermark robustness budget closed
Robustness against common transforms (re-encode, screen-capture, crop) committed to as a measurable budget. Releases gate on it.
- 03
Workflow
Takedown + negotiation surfaces wired
Detections route into a single workflow with takedown, negotiation, and escalation states. Each tenant sees only its own evidence.
- 04
Today
Merged to main, in production
Stack consolidated into the main branch with a documented operator handbook. Enterprise tenants are onboarding against it.
Who Imprint is for
Operators of high-value media
Pre-release leak protection
Forensic codec plus watermark turns any leak into a traceable event. Enforcement starts from evidence, not from guessing.
Catalog-scale takedown automation
Detection feeds the same takedown workflow regardless of catalog size. Each notice carries its own audit trail.
Multi-tenant integrity infrastructure
Platforms hosting third-party media can offer the whole stack to their tenants without sharing tenants' evidence.
