Dealing with Dongles

By David Battino
March 27, 2006 | Comments: 3

As I receive more high-end audio software for review, the copy-protection dongles have been multiplying annoyingly. Swapping them in and out as I launched various programs and plug-ins was becoming a hassle. In one case, a program crashed the computer when I inadvertently quit it while its dongle was unplugged.

Thanks to a tiny USB hub I picked up at the Game Developers Conference last week (one of the better pieces of swag I’ve received), I can now plug once and get to work without doing the dongle shuffle.

Plug once, launch anywhere: Dongles for Arturia Brass, BIAS Peak Pro, and Antares AVOX now coexist efficiently.

It sure would be nice to have a universal dongle, though, or an even smaller hub. Suggestions, anyone?

3 Comments

Jinen said:

We are addressing the problem of IP protection of:
a. published softwares
b. documents
with a software solution.

The solution enables one time licensing / subscription based licensing/ usage based licensing of your IP. The solution is coupled with an entire ecosystem offering web and sms based distribution of licenses. (ofcourse - one license can work only on one machine - machine need not be online to allow the usage of your IP)

The solution needs no extra coding and programming efforts for IP publisher - and hence make it a one click secure solution.

Feel free to touch base with me to get more information.

May 6, 2008 10:45 PM

eu said:

Ha! I've been doing the same for crypto tokens for over 3 years. :-)

March 28, 2006 5:50 PM

Roger said:

See my post at

http://www.oreillynet.com/digitalmedia/blog/2006/03/dongles_feh.html

March 27, 2006 1:52 PM