Warning email from Amazon

[Elgin]

I got the warning without renting or buying a video.. I was accidentally bumped into a free trial of Amazon Prime when buying something unrelated on amazon.fr. I used the trial to download two series on amazon.co.uk. The warning came after the trial had finished.

Might be pure coincidence, but I also got my warning after an accidental free trial ended. Except I didn't download a "free" movie, but two seasons of a show which I bought on sale within the trial period. It was exactly after the trial ended.

[slottedpig]

Might be pure coincidence, but I also got my warning after an accidental free trial ended. Except I didn't download a "free" movie, but two seasons of a show which I bought on sale within the trial period. It was exactly after the trial ended.

Before or after July 28th? Which version of software?

[MrGrackle]

I know. It is still unclear if the leaked certificates were used by both Widevine and Playready. 1) The account name posting to Github was called "Widevineleak", and 2) The timing of this aligns with people starting to receive letters from Amazon.

Isn't SF a passive program? The data comes our way, it is decoded locally, so a key exchange never really takes place in that sense. It's not like SF says,"Hello AMZ, I am SF. Now give me that file!"
As far as AMZ is considered, it's a Chromium browser requesting access to a protected video and is in a secure playback environment. Said secure environment requests the key for playback purposes. No other info is really shared so AMZ doesn't suspect anything based on just that.

[MrGrackle]

Who here has received a warning that does NOT use a VPN?
Unless you're in a different country and want to see regional content, you don't exactly have a reason to use a VPN.


When SF was using the screen recorder method, did it leave a trace, such as the "Continue Watching" screen saw that you watched it?
Could the option to mark a show as Watched be added? (ie: Playback the content in an accelerated way and therefore show that you "watched" it)

[Germania]

Who here has received a warning that does NOT use a VPN?

I have never used the affected account with VPN or accessed any websites other than amazon.de

Yesterday, I also received this email from amazon.co.uk ..
.. which was sent to an email address that was used exclusively for amazon.de
and (unlike my non-german accounts) was never used via a VPN (never used outside of DE)
And I have never reached the 100 limit - and never canceled a rented title.

[kye]

Who here has received a warning that does NOT use a VPN?

I do not use a VPN.

[TheRaven]

Who here has received a warning that does NOT use a VPN?
Unless you're in a different country and want to see regional content, you don't exactly have a reason to use a VPN.


When SF was using the screen recorder method, did it leave a trace, such as the "Continue Watching" screen saw that you watched it?
Could the option to mark a show as Watched be added? (ie: Playback the content in an accelerated way and therefore show that you "watched" it)

I don't use VPN.

Regarding the continue watching. Is this the change that was instituted in 6247? As per Wilson "We did some improvements in the new version 6247, at least that the process is same as watching the video from Amazon website when analyzing and downloading videos from Amazon in StreamFab."

Could someone who is still downloading check to see if the shows are flagged as watched?

[Germania]

Could someone who is still downloading check to see if the shows are flagged as watched?

The movie I dl today with 6247 is not in my watch history, nor is a dl series episode ..
.. and “Continue watching” is also not displayed for either of them.

[Sebastian001]

The movie I dl today with 6247 is not in my watch history, nor is a dl series episode ..
.. and “Continue watching” is also not displayed for either of them.

Yes, but that is the case with all modules (the ones I use: RTL+, Joyn)

[Germania]

but for amazon Wilson wrote:
at least that the process is same as watching the video from Amazon website
when analyzing and downloading videos from Amazon in StreamFab
=> I see only "Amazon_PlayBack.json" in Log Directory

[Elgin]

Before or after July 28th? Which version of software?

Before July 28th with the (then) latest update. I haven't touched SF since the warning.

[Sebastian001]

Germania auch für jede Folge einer Serie oder nur für Folge 1?

[Germania]

Germania auch für jede Folge einer Serie oder nur für Folge 1?

Ich habe heute eine s01e06 heruntergeladen und die Serie/Episode erscheint nicht in Watch History
und "weiter ansehen" kam danach weder für s01e01 noch s01e06

- en -

> Also for every episode of a series or just for episode 1?

I downloaded a s01e06 today and the series/episode does not appear in Watch History ..
.. and "Continue Watching" did not appear for either s01e01 or s01e06 afterwards.

I haven't touched SF since the warning.

This is probably true for most SF user with regard to Amazon ..
.. so it's normal that no new warning emails have been reported

[IronicMan]

i've been using 6.2.4.4 and they sent me a warning...i thought i was using a more recent version, but when i clicked on "about" it says 6.2.4.4

[jpp72]

I think my plan to start downloading again in September is sound. Seeing some of the issues with downloading certain episodes with 6.2.4.7, I rather err on the safe side. I know that technically, it's a burner account, but I don't really want to be constantly creating new accounts.

By the time I start again, StreamFab should be at v6.2.5.2, and they will have hopefully ironed out all the issues with the "Improvements on the Amazon analysis and download engine"

[theresay]

Like I mentioned before, I'm still downloading from Amazon every day, although I reduced the quantity to one season a day (only because I subscribed to a couple of channels during Prime Day and am catching up on some shows, otherwise I usually don't download that much and not every day). I'm in the US, without ad-free, and I've rented but never watched, no cancellations (I got a reminder over the weekend on my latest rental, so I let it played on my phone while doing other things just to be safe). I'm on version 6.2.3.7. I check my inbox, spam folder, and Amazon messages twice a day, so far nothing.