If you are a small group on a DIY budget you may have little money try
to keep your record from leaking but may not have the money to get tons
of copies watermarked, so that you can determine who leaks your record.
Not to worry there is a simple way anyone with a DAW can watermark their
record. Simply take the last song on your record into any DAW and
consolidate it while adding an extra second to it and add another second
for each copy you make (see picture above). If your original song
is 2:40 you will make the first watermarked copy 2:41 and the next
2:42. If you are making 20 review copies this will result in your last
track having 20 seconds of extra space at the end of your record, but
truth be told, most reviewers will not notice it. Once this is done make
a document and notate how many extra seconds are on each version of the
record and who you are sending them to.
If your record is to
leak simply pull that song into your DAW and figure out which copy
leaked by looking at the document you made and who it was sent to. You
now have the culprit of your leak!