MEP 2020 Phoning Home a lot?

pmikep wrote on 3/9/2020, 8:01 PM

I've had MEP 2020 Plus (have I been calling it "Pro?") installed for a week now.

I know, from my old MEP days, that, starting with 2015 or 2106, you had to activate MEP online. And a one time activation of codecs.

So when the pop ups from my firewall popped up, I allowed them one time and then blocked them.

But today, I had to reactivate the MPEG-4 codec. Which I had just used yesterday.

Is this the new "normal"?

(Although yesterday I changed the signature on my OS drive - so maybe that triggered the need for re-activation.)

Also, a service worker thread always starts and it also phones home.

I presume that one is to check for updates. Even though I have News disabled. And even though I can tell from the forum when a new patch/update is released.

(I presume that Magix does not send out individual fixes to individual users?)

Started with MEP 11, then 17, then MX, then MEP 2013, 2015, then 2016. Changed to the fast competitor after that, which worked fine with my non-Intel hardware. Then bought a used Dell with an Intel GPU, just to play with MEP again. Installed MEP 2020 Plus in March 2020, even tho I don't like losing patches if I have to reinstall after a year.

Testing on a Dell Vostro, <s>i3-8100</s> updated to i5-9400 w/ UHD 630, 16 GB 2400 DDR4 (CL15), Win10 Home, heavily NTLite'd. Now with GTX-1650 Super OC'd. Added a WD Blue M.2 for OS (PCIe 3), Apps, Temps and Video-In. 2 Monitors. A WD Blue SSD for outputs. (SATA III.)

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