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by itamarst 3347 days ago
As far as content being posted for free, that seems hard to stop. One suggestion I've seen to reduce people actually downloading them in lieu of buying: https://successfulsoftware.net/2017/03/10/honeypot-page/

As far as stopping purchases: you can just disallow suspicious origins from purchasing. E.g. if you know it's Amazon IPs, ban those, very few people will legitimately do that.

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We do ban those via Radar on Stripe... but there are so many... it's impossible to list them all.
Some quick Googling suggests there are services to help with this, e.g. https://siftscience.com/products/payment-fraud (no opinion about this or any of them.)