Software Security

[Jammer]

I remember the first version being released and someone did some 
profiling on it.

Each time a note was moved in the time line, it checked the license dongle.

Pure unadulterated insanity.

When copy protection kills performance to that degree you've officially 
lost the plot.

On 17/08/2021 16:56, James Coplin wrote:
> 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.
>
> James
> On Aug 17, 2021, at 10:45 AM, Tony Scharf <tony.scharf at outlook.com 
> <mailto:tony.scharf at outlook.com>> wrote:
>
>     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 sales.
>
>
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