Dongles use a USB port do they not? I remember that "RoboCop 3" for my Amiga 500 had a dongle (which was of shitty quality and it broke, and a friend's father repaired it for me). If it uses a USB port, that is not a good thing. Having to keep track of that dongle is also unecessary annoyances for the consumer.
Dongles do 'something', don't remember what exactly, read some details of one for some audio software once. And that too could be and was cracked - some user made software interfaced and behaved just like the dongle did, enabling anyone to use the application without a dongle.
I find no moral problem with any entrepreneurs using all kinds of (legal, non evil) methods to encourage people to give them money for the software they developed. But the way some go about it is just hostile to consumers, and so consumers choose not to give them their money, which is not immoral either, especially in that circumstance.
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