Somewhat off topic, but the company that makes the music sequencer I use recently adopted a "dongle" policy for later versions of the product. This is a hardware key that you stick in a USB port (thus tying up the port), without which your software doesn't run. We're talking about a 100 dollar budget program here, not their top of the line product. One defender thinks the company must have done the numbers and felt so economically threatened by crackers this was the only solution. Seems excessive and alarmist to me.
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- tom moody 10-05-2005 8:41 pm