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From: bart@asgard.pub.uu.oz.au (John Butcher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Dongles to defeat piracy
Message-ID: <186879d1.ARN0dd3@asgard.pub.uu.oz.au>
Date: 23 Dec 90 13:01:53 GMT
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In article <26039@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU>, Patrick Martin writes:

> I agree.  Dongles are a major pain in the butt.  I have only had one
> program that used a dongle and while it did defeat alot of the piracy,

I ended up making a box with 2 joystick ports and a switch, 1 for a dongle,
and 1 for a joystick :)
- Silly really, the ONE dongle protected prg I [ had ] was a comms package
which came with the modem I got, and was configured specifically for that
modem, and even then I didnt use it, as the PD software around was better
( but didnt support the Auto-dial of the modem )
Talk about overkill : dongle protecting SW which I have now literally thrown
into the bin ( oh, Im using the disk for something else now tho ;)
 
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