: Visible and invisible watermarks on previews to track leaked or ripped assets back to the source.
Most rippers were opportunists, lazy teenagers looking to rescan a purchased model and flip it for a quick buck on a shady marketplace. Not the Ripper. He was an artist of theft. He targeted the top-tier sellers—the architectural visualization wizards and the high-fantasy sculptors. He would take a high-poly ZBrush masterpiece, strip the watermarks, fracture the geometry, and reassemble it into a glitch-art collage of unrecognizable shapes, selling the "remix" as an abstract asset pack. Cgtrader Ripper