digitizer 10000 security dongle

IME dongles don't "waster a port". I've used some with Autodesk software (AutoCad, 3D Studio Max) and they just connect between your printer and computer.

Does this dongle not "pass-thru" a printer?

Michael

So that the software can't be run on more than one computer at a time. It's a way for the producer of the software to protect themselves against piracy.

Most dongles have both a male and a female connector so they can be used "in between" your computer and whatever peripheral wants to use the same port. They pass through all data not intended directly for the dongle. It is very rare, although possible, for a dongle to interfere with the operation of a peripheral. They interfere less than an A-B switch.

The biggest operational arguments against dongles have to do with simple inconvenience - the need to carry it along with your laptop if that's your primary system, or the awkwardness of going behind your computer to attach/deattach it when changing venues to and from a laptop or from the sewing room to the den.

Sure. There are at least a half-dozen other digitizing programs out there. Some of them, like Viking's digitizer, also require dongles; some may require having an original CD in the drive (talk about wasting a resource!); Some (like Brother's PED) require that their card-writer is attached (now THAT eats up a port with NO pass-through capability). Others, like Embird, have no hardware protection.

- Herb

It's done so the softwear can not be pirated, I belive. You can use any other digitizer softwear as long as in the end you can convert to .jef

DQ

Digitizer 10000 comes with a USB dongle, not a printer port dongle and it does waste a port and is a pain in the butt! But, I have yet to see a pirated version of Digitizer on the net yet, so it works!

ps: Berina Artista is much like Digitizer but has way more and better features.

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Simple un-powered USB hubs are very inexpensive - Fry's has them for $10. often with a $10 rebate. These are like Y-connectors, or electrical octopuses. You can connect multiple devices to the same initial usb slot. So they really don't waste a port.

- Herb

I am in the process of having the HASP4 Emulator cracked for the Digitizer 10000, I am a DBA and I know the right people. When I have it, you can be sure it will be available on the net, I will post it on every P2P site I can find. I wrote to Janome and the reply I got was, that even they hate it. Their dongle is useless to me, I'm a pirate and proud of it.

snyper

It's scum like you that are part of the reason some specialized software costs so much. With only a limited potential market, developers have to put the price at a certain level to recover the costs of creating the software. Then, they have to increase that price to offset the losses caused by criminals like you.

gwh

Wow - I am so glad that you are putting your vast experience to use ripping off other developers - you would think that a person that makes his living as a professional geek (DBA = Data Base Administrator for those who don't speak acronym) would understand what damage he is doing by ripping off software.

Maybe you will see the light if and when you ever get a piece of your own software on the market - then you can watch in disgust as idiots like you proudly crow about participating in software theft.

It's bad enough that there are software theives in the embroidery world who are NOT computer pro's by trade (I use the term loosely in your case) - it's many times worse when the ripoff artist is in a position that they SHOULD KNOW BETTER.

When you need a new security software tool, or a development tool, I am sure that you just rush right out and try to get a cracked copy (NOT) - you likely realize that there are REAL people whose wages get paid by software sales, and that support is important - why then is it different when the software in question is for embroidery? Do you have a clue as to how many programming hours are involved in those digitizing packages?

You give professional geeks like us a bad name - GROW UP....

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I have no problems with pirates. I welcome the crack. At least I'll be able to use my laptop and my desktop without pulling the stupid dongle out.

I support the idea of shareware, even with commercial programs. Gives one a chance to evaluate the software before purchase. Save lots of $$$!

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Erna - could you post a link here where I could download all the designs on your site free? I'd like to pirate them...

Bob

If I were you, I wouldn't be "advertizing" that I'm breaking the law!!!

Why d>I am in the process of having the HASP4 Emulator cracked for the

Can people use your car because they are thinking of buying a car like yours?

Pirated stuff is illegal, you get caught, you can go to prison. Mind you, if you want to go to jail for a couple of hundred dollars, then so be it.

You don't go to prison for a civil suit. You pay damages.

Nobody said "You were breaking thw law"

Stealing is not civil, it's criminal.

I'm not breaking the law, get your facts straight. The person who is hacking the program is, it's called stealing...

Stealing is a criminal charge only if you convince the police it is causing harm to the public and they lay criminal charges. The police don't care if you steal embroidery patterns or use them without authorizations.

Nobody copying and using embroidery patterns has been charged with anything criminal. They have been sued by the owners of the copyrights.

Get **your** facts straight. I will now quote you... "If I were you, I wouldn't be "advertizing" that I'm breaking the law!!!"

Everybody can tell it was you because you spelled "advertising" incorrectly.

And he is breaking the law as he's hacking it, it's criminal not civil theft is criminal.