Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!purdue!haven!udel!mmdf From: jones@uv4.eglin.af.mil (Calvin Jones, III) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Dongles Message-ID: <18770@snow-white.udel.EDU> Date: 7 May 90 19:11:49 GMT Sender: mmdf@udel.EDU Lines: 15 Karl Lehenbauer writes: > At least with a dongle, it should be true that the copy protection is > encapsulated within the dongle (i.e. no filesystem foolaround, or > type-in-the- word), and the program loads when the dongle is present > without further adieu, and the disk themselves are unprotected, so you > can freely make backup copies. Obviously you don't have a teenager in the house that "needs" that second joystick port in a *HURRY* for the latest shoot'em up! Not much chance that the dongle will get replaced in the port when he's done. The fact is that dongles are too damn small and likely to get lost. There's also the problem of which dongle goes with which program. You get upwards of 3 or four and it gets hard to tell them apart!