But you didn't. See what did I did there, my humourless contrarian buddy pal friend.
Oh by the way iLok is the best.
Ilok is copy protection license manager, the others a mainly a mixture of installers with some license management.
Arturia leaves a process resident in memory at boot-up too. I would rate them below iLOK, and I am no fan. Waves Central is shit. Melda's updater is shit. IK's is worse. All license managers have their deficits.
iLok and Waves both need the ability to deauthorize a computer remotely through your user account. Both Plugin Alliance and Arturia have that ability, which is what makes them better. Extra points for Arturia for keeping your software current. Same for the IK Product Manager.The Noodlist wrote: ↑Fri Jul 08, 2022 10:07 pmIlok is copy protection license manager, the others a mainly a mixture of installers with some license management.
I think the PA installer could be improved with the addition of a update checker, uninstaller and the option to choose installation destination.
IK's manager is very unintrusive. Its only flaw is that like Waves and iLok, you have to deauthorize from the same computer to reclaim your authorization. But IK is super generous and gives you 10 authorizations, which is the best in the industry by a lot.
Nope because both IMHO and YMMV are subjective according to your personal experience.plexuss wrote: ↑Wed Jul 06, 2022 11:42 pmYou forgot to say "IMHO" and "YMMV".tactile_coast wrote: ↑Wed Jul 06, 2022 11:04 pm Definitely avoid ILOK if you can.
Its an outdated user hostile protection system that requires genuine users to hold the risk of a very aggressive licensing mechanism whilst providing zero protection to developers (the security mechanisms have long been cracked and regularly exploited by pirates).
Based on personal recent experience there are severe consequences for genuine paying customers when inevitably the licensing software does not work as intended. At the best this for me has included loss of licenses due to trivial changes in hardware/component failure, at the worst it has necessitated purchasing entire replacement system drives to rebuild an ILOK corrupted primary partition.
Most iLok licenses no longer require an iLok USB. They exist now primarily for convenience.tactile_coast wrote: ↑Fri Jul 08, 2022 11:01 pm Though they are comparatively rare events hardware failure WILL cause you to lose a license and an errant ILOK installer can use its capability to BRICK your primary drive.
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