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Originally Posted by onewhippedpuppy View Post
Your device has a unique ID....
Just to be uber-geeky, the "unique ID" would be a MAC address (even they can be spoofed) that would only be known to the DHCP server that assigns the Internet IP address(es) and IP addresses typically change over time. I doubt seriously if that's how they monitor. I'd bet on software that's feeding the info back to them, not device registration. Removing "geek hat" now...
Old 12-28-2011, 05:03 AM
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