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<p><font face="Segoe UI">I remember the first version being released
and someone did some profiling on it.<br>
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Each time a note was moved in the time line, it checked the
license dongle.<br>
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<p><font face="Segoe UI">Pure unadulterated insanity.<br>
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<p><font face="Segoe UI">When copy protection kills performance to
that degree you've officially lost the plot.</font><br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 17/08/2021 16:56, James Coplin
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<div dir="auto">What Tony says. I remember a Cubase crack from
around a decade ago I think where the crackers said that about
*half* the code base was calls to the USB hardware key. That's
nuts from both a performance and maintanence perspective.
Steinberg has announced they are moving away from hardware
protection now. Slow lesson, long coming, but I suspect much
better for everyone in the long run.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Aug 17, 2021, at 10:45 AM, Tony Scharf
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<p class="MsoNormal">Agree completely. From the user
experience side (which is important) things like iLok are
just going to create additional support headaches, and
those support headaches will probably offset your loss in
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