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John: One thing that I've always felt important, is that most of the focus on piracy has been directed at the Amiga and Atari user base. However, as you point out there are many, many pirates in the DOS world as well. You certainly do have a right to protect your product. As a possible alternative to dongelization (if that's even a word!) I've noticed some software is now coming with "Registration disks". If one copy-protected such a disk, and made it required in the HD install procedure, then required the user to return it to gain a codeword. Such a codeword would enable certain parts of the software, say, or enable the program to boot after, again for example, ten times. I'm no programmer, but is this feasible? Certainly, from an end-user standpoint this would mean a little extra work, but infinately preferrable to a dongle. Besides all my ports are full! Regards, Trent Johnson ReAnimators 100% original Software!