While many have tried reporting the pirate sites warning users, a straight path to find the pirates is yet to be found.
“ The subscriber in question has a unique identifier (ID:1011). When this person plays the video, Amazon generates customized manifest data (126) based on this ID. This is used as input for the Fire TV player (124), which requests video data based on the data and decodes the media server’s video fragments (122). When the subscriber records the video with an HD camera in this example, this includes a code or mark that points back to the manifest data. However, unbeknownst to user 102, a pattern of version information 110 is encoded into at least some of the content fragments (e.g., 112-118) identified by customized manifest data 126 and is recoverable as a version pattern 132 that can identify user 102 as the source of the recorded episode.”
