RPi Camera v2 uses DRM to prevent clones (2016)

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12 pointsjbaiter2 comments

"What people don't realise when making cloned products is that this diverts money into knock-off merchants' pockets rather than our licenced distributors (for which we take a licence fee)."

In other words, they can't (or won't) sell at a competitive price. I'm not sure if this is a sad situation or not, as this will probably be the beginning of the end of the RPi dominance in the SBC market. I don't hate the RPi Foundation enough to hope they fail, but I'm not going to be shedding any tears.

https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1088506051295567872

"MAC-SHA256 key for the secret authentication chip: a9ec1b1359251fdb4d06efb95dc19ebcfb39e72e08253e5ab2d603de5800f500

XORing every byte with the previous one, top notch obfuscation there rPi Foundation. sub_EC8ABBC on the latest start_db.elf."

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