bandcoach
Zukatoku - Mod Scientist
Problem with most dongles is that they can be cracked too - I know that the Pro24 dongles were cracked, as were the C-Lab Notator dongles.
For a while there Steinberg went to floppy disc activation - to activate the program you needed a key disc that had five install keys on it; each time you activated the number of keys was reduced by 1 - you could increase the key count by de-activating an installation, but if you had a failure and had to reformat you were down one install key.
I still prefer dongles, but you have to remember that the most valuable part of the program is the dongle/activation key, the sw has no intrinsic value without the dongle.
For a while there Steinberg went to floppy disc activation - to activate the program you needed a key disc that had five install keys on it; each time you activated the number of keys was reduced by 1 - you could increase the key count by de-activating an installation, but if you had a failure and had to reformat you were down one install key.
I still prefer dongles, but you have to remember that the most valuable part of the program is the dongle/activation key, the sw has no intrinsic value without the dongle.