Users who rely on older dongle-based versions (EDIUS 4 through 7) should plan for eventual migration, as dongle failure becomes more likely over time and replacement options may be limited.
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For versions EDIUS 6, 7, 8, and 9 (and even some earlier iterations), Grass Valley employed a USB-based hardware dongle as the primary form of copy protection and license authentication. The dongle uses technology from SafeNet (formerly Aladdin’s HASP – Hardware Against Software Piracy). It contains a unique, encrypted signature that the EDIUS software checks at startup. Users who rely on older dongle-based versions (EDIUS