I went to the Waves website, logged in to my account, downloaded the latest installer, and retrieved my iLok from the shelf upon which it was gathering dust. The issue is that while PACE fails to stop piracy (something admitted by Waves themselves as they sue studios around the world for millions of dollars), PACE did succeed in stopping Adam from using his software:
#ILOK 2 EMULATOR MAC SOFTWARE#
Of course, unlike Audio Damage, Waves doesn’t offer a money-back guarantee for their products, so in the end I was stuck with software I’d paid for but couldn’t use.Īdam just doesn’t like copy protection, right? Well, no, in fact. This is one of many reasons that Audio Damage doesn’t use PACE: we want to help our customers make music, and we don’t want to be in a position in which we have to say “sorry, can’t help you” if something goes wrong with one of our products. Their only recourse is to tell you to wipe your hard drive bare and start again.
They didn’t invent PACE, they can’t fix bugs in PACE, they often don’t even know enough about PACE to troubleshoot it (which is not so much a reflection of their ignorance but of the sheer arcane complexity of PACE and the amount of information about it which its makers do not release even to their customers). This points up the biggest problem with PACE: if something goes really wrong, the maker of the PACE-wrapped product can’t help you. But here’s his argument: the problem isn’t copy protection per se, it’s that developers have to cede control to a third party when the technology breaks.
And that means that Waves is again a target, in this case because Adam himself had technical difficulties resulting from the copy protection scheme. Now Adam Schabtach of Audio Damage, the popular plug-in developer, has fired off a call for a boycott of products that use PACE and the iLok hardware dongle. The debate over copy protection in music software and anti-piracy tactics continues to heat up. If PACE chooses to release an official reply, we will share it. While they asked not to be publicly quoted, they have challenged the technical accuracy of Adam’s blog post, saying they don’t believe their product caused the Blue Screen of Death. Updated: A PACE Anti-Piracy official has officially requested that we remove an image of the iLok product.
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