Re: USB keys for game piracy prevention
- From: "Tomasz Jochimski" <tomasz.jochimski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 01:58:29 +0100
the dongles are still in use (as usb or lpt connectors) :) for example hasp
keys:)
U¿ytkownik "David Alex Lamb" <dalamb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> napisa³ w wiadomo¶ci
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> In article <1130437106.829830.288640@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> zircher <tzircher@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>Good point, I have kids that would lose their heads if they were not
>>connected. Trying to manage a dozen USB keys would be a nightmare.
>>Gee, it almost makes Steam reasonable in hindsight... nah. :-)
>
> Does anyone remember "dongles" from the 80's? They were devices you had
> to
> hang off your printer port to get some software to work -- and, yes,
> managing
> a bunch of them was a pain. Eventually companies realized they were
> annoying
> their legitimate customers more than they were inconveniencing pirates,
> and
> stopped doing it.
>
> It is probably naive to hope current-day copy protectors will learn from
> this
> old lesson.
> --
> "Yo' ideas need to be thinked befo' they are say'd" - Ian Lamb, age 3.5
> http://www.cs.queensu.ca/~dalamb/ qucis->cs to reply (it's a long
> story...)
.
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