What is a Virtual Dongle? (with pictures)

@jennythelib – I’m not sure if virtual dongles are used for piracy, but my understanding is that pirated software tends to simply omit the part of the code that makes it look for the dongle in the first place.

jennythelib

June 16, 2011

Can a virtual dongle be used in piracy? It seems like anything that enables you to avoid the physical usb dongle or whatever would be a key feature in piracy. The word “emulator” reminds me of those video game emulators you used to be able to download to play Nintendo, etc. games on your computer.

I’m also thinking of those websites that sell phony software installation codes using a random number generator.