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Publish SM synths with Steinberg dongles?

Archive · 2010 8 old posts

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Dave ·

Hi,

is it possible to publish SM synths with Steinberg dongles?

Or is SM too limited to include this into a schematic?

Thanks, Dave

Disco_Steve ·

make your own

buy hundreds of tinny usb pens put a file on the pen and lock the pen get your plug to scan for a file in the root directory of each drive, if it doesn't find the file.. poo poo doesn't work. if does hello your plug is authorised mission accomplished

Dave ·

Disco_Steve wrote: put a file on the pen and lock the pen

Hm so everyone can spread the file across the net and everybody can copy the file to his/her stick? 🙂

Sounds not very safe...

Disco_Steve ·

thats all that happens with a Steinberg dongle!

Dave ·

Disco_Steve wrote: thats all that happens with a Steinberg dongle!

If this would work, then everybody could buy a dongle and get all licences for free from somewhere...

Jay ·

Steinberg dongles are a bit more than that these days 🙂 its Syncrosoft licensing! which is basically a driver system that decrypts blocks of the protected applications code, thus allowing it to run, the code is Obfuscated with MCFACT. Take Cubase 4 or 5 for instance, around 25%-30% of the applications code is MCFACT protected the e-license you get is an ignition key that sets the Syncrosoft Dll into decryption mode!

so its a bit more than the old app checks dongle for lic file!

Quite clever but not clever enough and already defeated along with all the other clever dongle protections 😀

Best Regards

Oh yeh and dongles drive customers away!

sunsynth ·

btw: ...and u can forget 'download only' w/o shipping with that shi**y sticks...

infuzion ·

Jay wrote: Oh yeh and dongles drive customers away!

Some people in pro studios prefer dongles over keyfile+response since they can more or less use their own setup in any room. But for the most part, you are correct.

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