I, for one, am strongly against copy protection, in "code format," and dongles as well. I've run into situations where the copy protection has almost totally crippled my ability to use software I'd bought. It either hasn't worked on my computer configuration, or made me "jump through so many hoops" that I felt I was doing something wrong, rather than using something I paid for. As for dongles, I've run into situations where they were not compatible with certain hardware configurations. I advise people against using anything that wants to share a parallel port. Some of today's "intelligent printers" won't share the parallel port with scanners or any other device. Too many computer users have been suckered into the old "share the parallel port" idea, and wasted many hours and dollars trying to fix the problem. I fixed my computer problems by buying and installing a second parallel port. Then I networked our home computers, and let the wife have my printer so we could share it. I removed the second parallel port and will not use any other parallel devices other than my scanner which now has the port all to itself. The irony of copy protection is that it sometimes drives legal owners of software to look for warez so they will be able to use the sofware they bought so they can get around the crippling side effects of the copy protection.