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Re: Anybody out there?

From Björn Lundin <b.f.lundin@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.sys.raspberry-pi
Subject Re: Anybody out there?
Date 2015-09-16 20:58 +0200
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <mtce0e$af7$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
References (1 earlier) <mtbckr$4mc$1@dont-email.me> <mtbkr1$ud6$1@speranza.aioe.org> <mtc14d$lmm$1@dont-email.me> <mtc9fs$j6e$1@speranza.aioe.org> <mtca65$pnu$3@dont-email.me>

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On 2015-09-16 19:52, rickman wrote:

> Is the license coded to a serial number on the pi in any way?  What's to
> stop the world from sharing one license?  Honesty?

That and the fact that you put something like
decode_MPG2=0x788a80f3
decode_WVC1=0x6604c1a7

in /boot/cmdline.txt

The number is calculated from your serialnumber you get
from /proc/cpuinfo

so the license is tied via a hardware key

Bu you only need it to play mpeg2 movies - ie dvds.
and whatever is encoded with vc1.

divx/xvid/mkv etc does not need the license

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Björn

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Anybody out there? F8BOE <f8boe@bluemail.ch> - 2015-09-16 10:20 +0200
  Re: Anybody out there? Rob <nomail@example.com> - 2015-09-16 08:40 +0000
  Re: Anybody out there? David Taylor <david-taylor@blueyonder.co.uk.invalid> - 2015-09-16 09:51 +0100
    Re: Anybody out there? Dave Higton <dave@davehigton.me.uk> - 2015-09-16 20:12 +0100
  Re: Anybody out there? Gordon Henderson <gordon+usenet@drogon.net> - 2015-09-16 09:26 +0000
    Re: Anybody out there? alister <alister.nospam.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2015-09-16 11:46 +0000
      Re: Anybody out there? rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-09-16 11:18 -0400
        Re: Anybody out there? alister <alister.nospam.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2015-09-16 17:39 +0000
          Re: Anybody out there? rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-09-16 13:52 -0400
            Re: Anybody out there? Björn Lundin <b.f.lundin@gmail.com> - 2015-09-16 20:58 +0200
              Re: Anybody out there? Stefan Enzinger <mindoms@aon.at> - 2015-09-18 00:32 +0200
              Re: Anybody out there? druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2015-09-18 09:30 +0100
  Re: Anybody out there? Tony van der Hoff <tony@vanderhoff.org> - 2015-09-16 14:12 +0200
    Re: Anybody out there? Rob Morley <nospam@ntlworld.com> - 2015-09-16 16:02 +0100
    Re: Anybody out there? mm0fmf <none@mailinator.com> - 2015-09-16 17:58 +0100
      Re: Anybody out there? rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-09-16 13:56 -0400
  Re: Anybody out there? Norbert Möndjen <n.moendjen@vodafone.de> - 2015-09-18 19:45 +0200
    Re: Anybody out there? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-09-18 19:31 +0100
      Re: Anybody out there? rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-09-18 15:13 -0400
        Re: Anybody out there? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-09-18 22:05 +0100
          Re: Anybody out there? Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com> - 2015-09-18 16:49 -0500
          Re: Anybody out there? Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-09-18 22:40 +0000
          Re: Anybody out there? Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-09-18 22:29 -0400
            Re: Anybody out there? David James <david@tcs01.demon.co.uk> - 2015-09-21 23:12 +0000
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        Re: Anybody out there? Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com> - 2015-09-18 16:49 -0500
          Re: Anybody out there? rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-09-19 11:35 -0400
            Re: Anybody out there? Tauno Voipio <tauno.voipio@notused.fi.invalid> - 2015-09-19 19:51 +0300
              Re: Anybody out there? rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-09-19 13:10 -0400
                Re: Anybody out there? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-09-20 10:07 +0100
            Re: Anybody out there? Gordon Henderson <gordon+usenet@drogon.net> - 2015-09-19 17:37 +0000
              Re: Anybody out there? rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-09-19 14:31 -0400
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            Re: Anybody out there? Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com> - 2015-09-19 14:35 -0500
            Re: Anybody out there? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-09-20 10:05 +0100
              Re: Anybody out there? mm0fmf <none@mailinator.com> - 2015-09-20 10:56 +0100
              Re: Anybody out there? Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-09-20 10:31 -0400
                Re: Anybody out there? rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-09-20 11:12 -0400
                Re: Anybody out there? jake <jake@127.0.0.1> - 2015-09-28 18:28 +0100
                Re: Anybody out there? Alan Adams <alan@adamshome.org.uk> - 2015-09-28 20:33 +0100
                Re: Anybody out there? Paul <paul@pcserviceselectronics.co.uk> - 2015-09-20 17:15 +0100

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