The real story here is that people are selling modded Pis as higher-memory versions. And this check actually caught them + is circumventable. The restriction is somewhat annoying to a small subset of enthusiasts but seems to catch genuine fraud.
I feel like a genuine fraudster would know those circumventions while an enthusiast (who BOUGHT the device) would be hurt.
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