From: "Glenn Meadows" 

The problem with the Dongle for most of those on the audio side, is that if
it breaks/craps out, many people find it very difficult to convince the
software vendors to re-issue new keys to work with the iLock.  For the
audio people, instead of having a stack of dongles from each company,
they've all adopted the scenario that the end user buys his own iLock
dongle, that way all the programs look to the one dongle, and there are no
conflicts with the dongles.

With your scenario, that's fine, in that most likely, you're provided with
the physical dongle when you bought the Cobol, and you're not loading up
multiple dongles for different software vendors, where the dongles conflict
with each other.

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Glenn M.
"Tim Boyer"  wrote in message
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> On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 12:47:32 -0600, "Glenn Meadows"

> wrote:
>
>>Many in the audio industry still use the dongle approach to try to deal
>>with
>>illegal copying.  It works OK I guess, but there are typically cracked
>>versions pretty quickly available.
>>
>>People buy their own iLoc dongle, and provide it's serial number when they
>>purchase audio plugins for their workstations, and they get sent a
>>specific
>>unlock key that mates to the dongle.
>>
>>In that scenario, you can move the dongle from one computer to another,
>>and
>>the same plugins will work on the other computer when the dongle is
>>attached.
>
> Call me crazy, but I _like_ dongles.  My COBOL compiler is
> dongle-protected. So
> they put new versions up on the Web immediately for anybody to download,
> and
> there are no restrictions on beta versions - if you don't have the dongle,
> it
> won't do you any good.
>
> --
> tim boyer
> tim{at}denmantire.com

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