What came to my mind immediately was the huge Flava Works judgment against a man for uploading 10 of their films to the tune of $150K per film = $1.5 million. They had embedded unique codes in the films:
hXXp://operationgaga.com/topic/7799-american-court-awards-15-million-in-damages-to-gay-porn-piracy-case/
What I found incredulous were the comments expressing annoyance rather than concern about this on one of the other torrent sites:
hXXps://gay-torrents.org/details.php?id=f5fc0603c518cd2ff5cb0921f3dd1688366ca452
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Does this version have those annoying piracy warnings flashing throughout the video like the .mov version already uploaded?
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Privacy warnings are bean cut out.
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Thanks very much for the effort of cutting out the warnings. This and the other one needed someone with scissors
I once "traded" a pay site password at an exchange site and got an email from the porn company showing me hundreds of IP addresses that had all tried to log on using my now deactivated login and pass. Whether they can do anything about it is another question.