Discferret broken?

...today. In a decade or two, once the vendor has imploded and nobody knows even who all the successors-in-interest are, much less which one owns the relevant rights, it becomes useless to anyone who doesn't happen to already have a magic code. Except, of course, for people willing to break the copy-protect or share an existing license code (if anyone with a technically valid one can then be found). That sort of thing is why I raised the point of how future-proof the relevant software when people started talking about using FPGAs in devices being contemplated for archiving purposes. Actually, it is rather like that, except that the `dongle' is information instead of hardware. Technically easier to copy, but illegal to do so in most jurisdictions, criminal in at least one important one. (Unless of course legislators stop hiding their heads in the sand and pretending the world hasn't changed, which I consider highly unlikely.) Mouse