SET TOP BOX CONNECTION HISTORY AS A PIRACY DETECTOR

摘要

A method and apparatus are described including reading (310) display device identification data of a receiver device, determining (315) if the display identification data is equal to an immediately previously recorded display identification data, incrementing (325) a second counter if the display identification data is not equal to the immediately previously recorded display identification data, determining (335) if the second counter exceeds a threshold and performing (340) an anti-piracy action if the second counter exceeds the threshold.