Exposing the secret Pace / AIR Musictech conspiracy!!!

[mutantdog]

Before y'all started accusing me of tinfoil hattery, hear me out.

Is it at all plausible that AIR exist primarily as a vehicle for installing iLok on user machines?

Now I'll admit I don't know the economics of it but i believe it is safe to assume that developers pay Pace a fee of some sort for outsourcing their copy protection management to a professional specialist company. But how can AIR afford to do this when they basically give their software away?

The answer is glaringly obvious: by manipulating many users (mostly newcomers) into installing License Manager, the result is an increased number of active iLok users. This leads to a far greater market share of the creative community which adds value to the iLok brand, making their service more appealing to their customers: the software developers who may previously have been put off by the negative perception of iLok among older users. The increased size of their userbase may even add financial value to their service allowing Pace to charge higher fees to devs for choosing them over rival companies - how many elicenser users are there for example?

Which brings me to my (unsupported but equally indisputable) conjecture. That Pace actually pay InMusic to use iLok, believing that the value it adds to their brand outweighs the costs incurred. Effectively AIR, Sonivox etc. now exist principally as a tool for Pace's planned domination of the digital music software security industry.

Anyone care to add to this? I'm sure someone can implicate George Soros into this somehow!




edit: Yes, I'm bored but should this thread suddenly disappear, you'll know i was right!

[krabbencutter]

Pardon my french, but you're thinking way too narrow minded imho!

The value/dev aspect does not sound plausible to me, because of the following reasons:
- many industry leading developers are already using iLok
- as long as Pro Tools exists and is tied to iLok, iLok will remain one of the leading licensing solutions in professional recording studios and I guess that's where the money is anyway

- most smaller developers use mostly c/r or keyfiles. I don't know what amount of cash we're talking about regarding iLok licensing for developers. But I can imagine it's quite high and it's probably a big jump for smaller developers, to reach a level of financial profit, where they can spare the expenses for a third party licensing solution. So if iLok's long game would be to charge developers higher fees, they would probably raise the entry barrier for aspiring companies even more

tl;dr: We're not talking about iLok paying AIR to change the opinions of developers imho.

BUT

this is actually MUCH bigger than that! iLok and all associated developers are paying AIR to change the opinion of CONSUMERS!
Everytime hobbyists install Hybrid/Xpand/Vacuum, because they can't withstand the psychological pressure caused by the infinite flood of free/bundled/1$/magware-licenses anymore, they decide to challenge the 'ILOK IS THE DEVIL KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!!' opinion popularly expressed on the internet. And once they discover, that their experience with iLok doesn't match their second hand opinion, they're in. And then they will start buying more software from other developers that use iLok, which leads to more revenue for the developers which leads to more iLok licenses, which leads to more revenue for iLok.

It's not AIR.
It's not iLok.
It's EVERYONE,

[mutantdog]

You're right, I'm only looking at one small thing and missing the bigger picture.

We both agree that AIR currently serve a strategic purpose for Pace in their quest for market domination, but upon further investigation it goes much deeper than that. According to the distraction-for-the-masses thread in the main forum, iLok was cracked not long ago. Now it's well known that illegal software is always found on Russian websites; Putin uses it to track us for propaganda purposes and to locate former spies. The attack was in 2016 which was also the lead up to the US election, this cannot be a coincidence.

From Trump's collusion with Russia at the time, this is a sure sign that both Pace and InMusic were actively working with Hillary Clinton as part of a larger corrupt global network. What role could Pace be expected to perform in such an organisation? Some sort of universal iLok that would control access to everything, perhaps? Could InMusic's strategy of acquiring companies be part of some grand scheme to ultimately absorb and abandon the entire music industry? And who else is involved? Will Steven Slate run for 2020 president?

I fear dark times are LOOMing ahead. The RISE(R) of this corporate HYBRID needs to be stopped. We must STRIKE before they can XPAND further!





edit: i really need to get some sleep!

[krabbencutter]

[...] What role could Pace be expected to perform in such an organisation? Some sort of universal iLok that would control access to everything, perhaps? Could InMusic's strategy of acquiring companies be part of some grand scheme to ultimately absorb and abandon the entire music industry? And who else is involved? Will Steven Slate run for 2020 president?

I fear dark times are LOOMing ahead. The RISE(R) of this corporate HYBRID needs to be stopped. We must STRIKE before they can XPAND further!

Your STRUCTURE makes complete sense! I was already wondering how Steven Slate would fit into all this and BOOM! Once russia successfully creates a power VACUUM, Slate will take over. This will mark the next stage of the ever growing everything bundle, where everything means EVERYTHING!

MAKE AMERICA SLATE AGAIN!

[fluffy_little_something]

You people need a tinfoil hangar

I wonder though if in the long run inMusic will mean the demise of those acquired companies such as Denon, Alesis, or Akai, which used to enjoy a good reputation.

[krabbencutter]

You people need a tinfoil hangar

I wonder though if in the long run inMusic will mean the demise of those acquired companies such as Denon, Alesis, or Akai, which used to enjoy a good reputation.

From what I can tell only AIR & Sonivox are getting the short end of the stick. Rane & Akai seem to be getting along quite nicely, Denon naturally has to compete against the overarching power of Pioneer and M-Audio has always been a consumer focused company.

[VariKusBrainZ]

This EXACT same theory has been posted here before

[robotmonkey]

This EXACT same theory has been posted here before

Conspiracy confirmed.

[VariKusBrainZ]

This EXACT same theory has been posted here before

Conspiracy confirmed.