USB license dongles are still very common in industrial automation, I work for a company that uses it. You don't want an internet outage (or an AWS outage) to take down a production line for a day. You also expect to set up a system once and then have it just work for a decade or so.
In our case, the copy protection would still be as easy to bypass as the one in the article.
In our case, the copy protection would still be as easy to bypass as the one in the article.