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Hey Mods - genuine question: Why do all the threads about sat nav updates keep getting locked? I don't understand.
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Normally because some one will link to a source for illegal software
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Correct, they usually get a couple of posts in before that happens.
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So 3rd party maps for idrive are illegal then?
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It’s not the map data, but the FSC code which is required to make it work - a bit like getting a MS Office disk and then using someone else’s key or a generated key.
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I thought the key had to come from BMW. Obviously not. How does that work?
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It would be pretty ironic if a thread asking why nav update threads get locked also ended up getting locked.