Hardware Locking

Hey Steve,

LimeLM is hardware-locked licensing. You can read more about it and how it works here: What is hardware-locked licensing and why choose LimeLM?.

been using LimeLM for our demo version for years and love it!

Thanks, that truly means a lot.

So....Is it possible now or in the near future to tie LimeLM to a single piece of hardware?

Yes, it has been since day one. The "piece of hardware" that TurboActivate uses is the "fingerprint" of the computer.

if they install our software on another system when they active it checks that piece of hardware is preset then and on program launch.

You have a couple of options for these customers that just want to buy 1 license from you, but also want to run your application on many machines:

1. You can tell them to buy multiple licenses for your software. (Presumably one of the goals of your software company is to make money).
2. You can add an "Activate / Deactivate" menu to your application (see our example apps). This will let the customer move between computers by "Deactivating" from one computer and "Activating" on another computer.
3. You can use floating licensing.

In any of these cases it's just as convenient (or more convenient) than using physical dongles.

Does that make sense?

Hey Wyatt!

thx for the response...

by "single piece of hardware" I don't mean get a fingerprint of the whole machine but instead let the user select either a USB flash drive, external FW drive or in best case scenario an iLok.

1. Yea...at $299-$349 a license that won't fly....hahaha

2. The problem here is 99% of our users are Sound Designers and be might working at Sony Pictures one day and then Paramount Pictures the next week and can't afford to remember to De-Activate from a previous location before moving systems. Audio guys are used to carrying 4-5 dongles on a USB hub....just part of our life so locking LimeLM to one of these is ideal cuz your not gonna forgot that when you move from location to location....well...hopefully not! 8)

3. Codemeter works fine for our big companies that rock one dongle with say 30 licenses on it. Turbo Float looks like a great alternative for sure and I'll look at the more for sure! 8)Can you access the license server over the Web if you port forward to it cuz that is one cool thing about Codemeter.If an employee wants to work at home for the day it's possible.

I'm mostly concerned about our single license users that move around a lot from job to job to a different facility every week.Since we use Codemeter over iLok (unfortunately, the industry standard in the audio world) I'm sure we loose some sales cuz of that so I'm trying to fix that without getting 10 emails a week "I reformatted my PC can I get my code renewed?"So locking LimeLM to an iLok or any single removable piece hardware is ideal if possible.

is that possible or does it currently only fingerprint the whole system?

Thx for the help!

Steve

Can you access the license server over the Web if you port forward to it cuz that is one cool thing about Codemeter.If an employee wants to work at home for the day it's possible.

Yep, a customer can access the TurboFloat Server from anywhere. It sounds like for your needs that using TurboFloat would be the best solution. So, the customer would install the TurboFloat Server on a computer that will be running when the customer is using your app (it can be a server, a laptop, or anything). And your app, using the TurboFloat library, would connect to the server.

Meaning, the customer wouldn't have to worry about activating and deactivating your app. They could just run your app on any one of their computers and it would all just work.

Does that make sense?

so I'm trying to fix that without getting 10 emails a week "I reformatted my PC can I get my code renewed?"

is that possible or does it currently only fingerprint the whole system?

Well, TurboActivate doesn't choke if a customer reformats their computer, or reinstalls Windows, or replaces a harddrive, or any of the other "normal" things customers do. It was designed to handle that stuff. It will still see the computer as being the same.

all sounds like something to check out when I get a chance! 8)

I need to work easily on a different system ever week.that is why I wanted to be able to lock it to a "single" piece of hardware that the user carries around with them but doesn't seem that is possible right now.

so for example the user would have the option to fingerprint the whole system like currently or choose a single device option and then it would pull up a list of possible devices like removable USB drives or Flash Drives. or existing hardware dongles (assuming they generate some sort of fairly unique ID)the user would select one and that would be stored on your server and when a user launches the software from any PC or Mac it checks if this one piece of hardware is present to be able to launch the software.

put it on the request list...8)thx man!

Steve