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> I wouldn't be surprised if they made it so trivial to bypass their online service integration on purpose.

I'd be surprised if it was on purpose. More likely they know 9,999 people out of 10,000 are going to create a trackable account, and the simplest thing is to ignore the "hacker" outliers, who would probably not be particularly profitable anyway.

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Not getting into an arms race against hackers is a sound business decision, unless you have a very good profit motive to keep them out.

Maybe the devices are loss leaders and you can't afford to have many users not following up with purchases from you. Or maybe you are at risk of being sued over some shady licensing deal if you don't lock down. Or someone like Microsoft bribes you to lock out competitors. Or maybe you're just a control-freak asshole company.

Or a mix, like Sony.

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