From: Tim Boyer 

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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