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Originally Posted by Nuno_F  Oh, if they say so, then it must be true... |
Anyone who knows how to program with half a brain can figure this out for you, without even having to go through the effort of cracking the application.
More dongle calls = more cpu load going to something that's not doing what you paid it for. To demonstrate: sorting ten thousand numbers can be done in a few milliseconds: connecting to a webpage to retrieve a message takes in the hundreds. Checking if the dongle is there and validating keys is not as simple as sorting, and when the call is made every time you do something, time is wasted. As if a legit user would replace his software with a non-legit version while the legit one was still running - that's ridiculous.
To Steinberg's credit, the number of calls has been drastically reduced in a later version.
It's very simple: when I have a key to your door, I can let myself in whenever I want to. It doesn't matter if you place a hundred doors in front of me to protect your goods as long as they all have the same key.
Whenever you get a dongle, remember that you pay extra for a failed protection scheme (as long as you can find a cracked version of the software you paid for), and that is considering you, a legit user, to be guilty by default.