I was reading the Dorico Licensing, there are very good new, Steinberg is improving the Licensing,

Will we profit of this with VSL protection ? this is anoter question 

Thank you to everybody who has given us feedback about Dorico's licensing scheme.

We want to give our customers the most flexible licensing solution possible based on the current capabilities of our eLicenser technology, which is used by all Steinberg products. As such, the scheme used by Dorico 1.0 will be as follows:

When you buy the boxed version of Dorico, you will receive in your package an Activation Code that allows you to activate Dorico using the Soft-eLicenser. Using this Activation Code will lock Dorico to a single computer. You will also receive a hardware USB-eLicenser key in your package, to which you can optionally move your Dorico license.

When you buy the download version of Dorico, you will receive an Activation Code that allows you to activate Dorico using the Soft-eLicenser. If you would like to transfer your copy of Dorico to a USB-eLicenser and you do not already have one, you will be able to buy one from the Steinberg online shop or your reseller, and then transfer your license to your USB-eLicenser. We plan to set the price of the download version of Dorico lower than the boxed version, so that if you choose to buy the download version but later decide to move your license to a USB-eLicenser, the intention is that, barring significant pricing differences in different territories, you should not pay more overall than if you had initially bought the boxed version.

Once you have moved your Dorico license from the Soft-eLicenser to the USB-eLicenser, Dorico will only run if the USB-eLicenser is plugged into a USB port on that computer.

If you choose to transfer your Dorico license from the Soft-eLicenser to the USB-eLicenser, at present you cannot subsequently transfer your license back to the Soft-eLicenser. However, our eLicenser team is investigating the feasibility of allowing a license to be moved from the USB-eLicenser back to a Soft-eLicenser, which would make it possible to move your Dorico license from one computer to another, and then run it on that computer without requiring the USB-eLicenser any longer. This capability may not be ready by the time of Dorico's initial public release, so we will provide further information about this at a later date.

Steinberg is always reviewing its licensing technologies in the light of changing customer and business needs, and looking to the future we plan to introduce new capabilities to our eLicenser system that will address the needs of customers to run the software on their computers without the use of the USB-eLicenser while still protecting both their and Steinberg's investment in our software.

The fact that we all have to register at VSL even to purchase means that there is a way to recover lost licenses, or simply do away with the dongles through UUID -machine IDs we all use to download, install, and update our software and libraries. An internet connection is need to do all o this networking any, so it doesn't make sense in late 2016 to rely on dongles when you can have monthly (or semi-monthly) internet pings to make sure we're all behaving. And I'm looking at you as well, Avid and Waves. And I am a respoonsible adult who does not pirate software.

Even having licenses sit on a locked SD card is better than these black-boxes by Steinberg and iLok. The only reason iLok has ZDT is because:

1. It's something else to sell.

2. They know their product doesn't last more than a few years.

You see, this is all money that I could be saving to buy more VSL products. But certain policies and the unwillingness of others, to step into the 21st Century give me pause. I certainly don't want to single-out VSL, because their products are so well engineered, that I've never really needed any real customer support.

FCPX, Compressor, Motion, Logic X, and Photoshop CS6 do not require dongle- licensers.

Avid, Slate Digital, VI Labs, and many others do, which is probably only necessary because of they way the code is written. I don't know. Perhaps others will join-in and shed some light on this.

It is a ridiculous analogy vsl makes to "jewelry", as jewelry is a physical, tangible product whereas a license is just virtual bits and bytes, should be easily replaced. Why can't vsl simply ask Steinberg to cancel activation codes and issue new ones. This is horrible customer service and perhaps a deal breaker from ever spending a cent with Vienna Symphonic Library again. Looking at the forums I see I am not the only one who has lost an eLicenser as there are hundreds of posts from previously loyal but newly disgruntled users who have received the same lack of empathy from vsl. What a back asswards policy! I