You have some valid points in your post. Speaking of the above specifically, ironically I think many people do have all of their products on say one computer hard drive (that could crash or fail). There's various degrees of volatility to all of the elements of a virtual studio (well, even a hardware studio... let's not forget that sometimes gear BREAKS and sometimes it costs more to fix it than to buy a new one!).Cabinfever wrote:
Imagine if every piece of hardware you own was tied to a single dongle ? You lose your laptop then everything in your house from a DVD player to your fridge to your ipod is also trashed. Would you ever accept such a stupid system ?
That's not a justification and keep in mind that I realize there are pluses and minuses to every system. However, still, I have yet to hear someone suggest a system that protects a vulnerable product such as software as much as tying it to hardware (whether that is to a small USB key or to an audio interface or processor board/card). If I heard of something better I'd lobby my tentactles off for it. But, I really don't know any. Do you? (I mean, besides that we'd all LIKE to have just serial or no copy protection at all... sure we would!
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