So in both cases, needing to use a dongle would require me to daisy-chain a second USB hub in the studio (yuck), or to begin carrying around a USB hub (and the power cable for same, as it would need to be a powered hub) with my mobile setup (also yuck). Similarly, I have exactly 2 USB ports on my portable computer, and when I’m using it for music purposes, both of those are filled as well. And every single one of those ports (ten in total) is already occupied in the course of my normal studio operations. I currently have a seven port USB hub on my main studio computer, along with four USB ports on the computer itself. I have no less than three reasons for having strictly avoided dongles to date. What if it breaks? Then all my licenses are lost.Īll developers should give you your licenses again, at least if you can prove that your dongle is defective (proove for example by sending it back).īut that they try to charge me insurances (or tell me to buy a dongle every two years) for their anti piracy protection scheme is just ridiculous. The only thing intriguing about dongles is: I have my licenses fully under my own control.
So in general I like the idea of a dongle. In case your dongle is lost or stolen, well that is everyones own fault. Even worse is if I have to be online all the time (not only for activation, no internet connectivity -> no function) licenses that require to be online to activate (which means the machine must be connected to the internet).When my computer breaks I can only hope to get another activation (based only on generosity of the developer, if they let me or not). licenses that activate to a special hardware signature.Dongles will not stop working even if the developer goes out of business at some time (in contrary all online activation using developer specific user accounts will vanish).New machine, no hassle just bring my dongle with me and I am good.I can use my software whereever I wish.I find the idea of dongles not bad at all.
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