You can't stop piracy - ever.  M$ has dumped millions into security to avoid piracy of Windows and other M$ products.  Wow, yeah, that worked.

As noted, the only thing these Draconian countermeasures do is make applications less stable and more difficult for paying customers - when they're not meddling with other operations (say, rootkits).  Go to Google, type in "interPoser Pro" and count the pages selling/allowing downloads of the cracked version.  Not only is it cracked (hey, I didn't use 'Draconian' countermeasures just something to keep most people honest and let them get on their way), but there seems to be a great distribution network.  This rivals any delivery system any multi-billion dollar conglomerate big-business could ever provide.

Dongles are chains.  Any software (hehe) that uses dongles is enslaving you for nothing.  They don't work, they can be easily circumvented.  The supposedly uncrackable encryptions being tested by even the governments have been shown to be crackable - you just need a network of a couple million computers and voila, a billion years shrinks to a couple months.  Give up already...

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder, but when you do, you blow your whole leg off.

 -- Bjarne Stroustrup

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