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Defending dongles puts the user in the awkward position of adopting a position that is not in his/her self interest. I don't understand that. I wish everyone could prosper, but I don't have the time to care whether a SW vendor survives or not.
I will tolerate a dongle only when the value of a donglized product is so great and the product is so unique that I am willing to suffer dongle maintenance (not to mention indignity) to use it. So far, the only product that has made that cut for me is KDLE and KALE (the Korg VST's). I use Virsyn Cube 2 (which presently does not use a dongle), and if the next version of Cube is donglized like other recent Virsyn products have been, I will dump Cube 2. There are other additive synthesis VST's available that can easily meet my needs.
I have a few questions:
1) Is a user of pirated software likely to buy the product if a pirated version was not available, and does the pirate user indeed represent lost sales?
2) How do some SW vendors thrive using pirating deterrence techniques without resorting to dongles?
thanks
Keith
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