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Article #24335Re: Copy protection and the consumer (dongles)
From: Eric Black
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1988 22:54
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1988 22:54
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In article <1869@optilink.UUCP> cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) writes:
>The software I've seen using dongles only needs it to start up. In a
>multitasking system, you start up all your dongled software first.
I've seen software (useful software, too) that checks peridically for the
dongle -- one example is Superbase (a relational database) for the Amiga.
Unfortunately, this is one which doesn't give you a second chance to install
the dongle; if, during its sojourns, it decides that the dongle is missing or
wrong, it dumps you in the street.
Makes it kind of hard to juggle dongles in a multi-tasking environment...
Even single-tasking, I hope it never gets a read error on the dongle!
Games, maybe -- "productivity software", NEVER!
--
Eric Black "Garbage in, Gospel out"
UUCP: {sun!sunncal,hpda}!athertn!ericb
Domainist: ericb@Atherton.COM
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!amdcad!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!hplabs!hpda!athertn!ericb From: ericb@athertn.Atherton.COM (Eric Black) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.misc Subject: Re: Copy protection and the consumer (dongles) Message-ID: <165@teak.athertn.Atherton.COM> Date: 23 Jan 88 22:54:05 GMT References: <4663@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <22628@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <1852@optilink.UUCP> <6622@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <1869@optilink.UUCP> Reply-To: ericb@Atherton.COM (Eric Black) Organization: Atherton Technology, Sunnyvale, CA Lines: 19