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This is what Avid sends you after creating an account: Your iLok account allows you to: - Use the free iLok License Manager application to manage your licen
by blobs 7y ago
This is what Avid sends you after creating an account:
Your iLok account allows you to:
- Use the free iLok License Manager application to manage your licenses
- Take advantage of Zero Downtime and Theft & Loss Coverage premium services to help protect your investment
Take advantage of Zero Downtime I never understand what they mean with this, but now it definitely lost all its meaning.
- franky47 7y agoZero Downtime is a paying option provided by PACE (makers of the iLok and the copy protection software) for extended support if one loses their licenses. It covers a broken/lost/stolen iLok, not sure how it would fit in this case. A few years back I was working for a company that used iLok protection and had a major outage like this, we nicknamed it the iLokalypse.
- devm0de 7y agoFrom what I recall zero downtime simply meant if a ilok went missing then PACE would assist you in replacing license(s) to a replacement ilok from their end. Trouble is often times you couldn’t quickly find a replacement ilok without a guitar center nearby and would still have to order it through avid store and wait for it to arrive if you didn’t plan for this.
- entropicdrifter 7y agoZDT also covers RMA situations where you iLok broke. Instead of them sending you a new iLok after a couple of weeks that has whatever licenses they were able to recover off the old one, they send you a new one with all of the licenses from the old one the same day you send them the old one, so you end up with like a 24-48 hour turnaround instead of losing a week or two.
- unicornfinder 7y agoAh yes, the excellent service of paying additional money to be able to actually use the software you've paid for...