Re:Rockstar is selling cracked game copies on Steam
by dylan604 on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @01:50PM
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my favorite use was for software that required a USB dongle. if you lost the dongle, you lost access to the software. there is not "back up" option. so the cracking community came up with a way to emulate those dongles. the obvious abuse followed. we used the software for legit 1:1 installs to physical dongle on blade servers where all of the dongles could not be installed
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Re:Rockstar is selling cracked game copies on Steam
by extraduder_ire on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @02:34PM
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My favourite failure case of this is dongles on hardware devices, like lighting controllers. Especially when the dongle does in on an exposed edge of the device and can get knocked loose.
I've heard stories of them getting disconnected because they were bumped, and the whole unit goes dead five minutes later. At least it's not immediate.
Re:Rockstar is selling cracked game copies on Steam
by Stibinator on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @11:04PM
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I nursed my Lightwave dongle through my early career as an animator. I've lost so many pairs of glasses, several wallets, a couple of phones, but I know exactly which drawer that usb stick is sitting in now. Not that I reckon I'll ever touch LW again.