Amazon patents a novel technique to identify content pirates on Prime

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New method will identify subscribers who make duplicates of Amazon's copyrighted content

E-commerce giant Amazon has received a patent from the US Patent and Trademark Office for a technique designed to identify subscribers pirating Amazon's online content on the Prime Video platform. ...

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