iLok down for improvements...

24 hours due to maintenance, starting Friday June 7, at 6 pm PDT

I got a notice a couple days ago that it would happen.
 
I hope they get it all working with the latest OS and browsers.
 
best regards,
mike

Nope...not yet.

 
I actually received my notice from an aware vendor who wanted it's customers to have a smooth transition.
 
It sure seems like iLok itself should have notified us that this window would open up and leave people stranded.
 
It just seems like further evidence that iLok is nothing but a huge "con" on any purchase decision list.
 
I'm using it... but it seems like extortion performed by an outfit that only really seems to care about itself and maintaining a parasitic symbiosis with developers desperate to not have their work stolen.
 
I get why the developers use it... but iLok stinks. The fact that it can't swap out a website in less than a few minutes suggests to me that they don't have a vital operation and that they are merely accustomed to milking the developers for extortion money. 
 
I anticipate that vendors will iUnlock the stuff in the coming years.
 
best regards,
mike

it's online now

Yup...here also.  BUT...it doesn't, as yet, show any of my new licenses from Softube.  I expect that may take a day or so.  We'll see.

yoropal: whenever I have bought softube stuff they have sent me an email to say the licenses have been placed in my iLok account. They might be a bit slower than normal because of this sale. Fingers crossed for you here that they arrive at the right destination. Not a nice feeling waiting on people half the world away when you have put your money on the table.

I agree.
 
I use ILok out of necessity - not choice - I'd be well pi$$ed off if I was in your shoes 'ol pal
 
They'd be a size too big...................

Well, the new iLok client isn't working for me yet.  Keeps telling me the server is down, no internet connection, etc. 
 
To see if anyone else was in the same boat, I just checked GS and what do you know ... a veritable sh*tstorm of complaints about the new client disabling existing iLok licenses!  Probably a good thing I couldn't get it to work, as my licenses still function within my DAW.  But I can't download any new licenses until things get straightened out within iLok's secret lair.  So, I have one thing to say to those of you who distrust iLok: 
 
You were right.
 
Cheers,
Eddie
 
P.S.  I'm sure this will get sorted out soon, but there are many professionals out there who currently can't work with their usual tools.  I'd be EXTREMELY upset if that happened to me.  Zero down time, indeed!  Har har.

Maybe these latest complaints & problems will put another nail in the coffin & the remaining devs will stop using & requiring iLok altogether.

 
It's an extortion racket.
 
I wonder what they charge the software companies for the protection?
 
 

Well that is a false dilemma. Not a big fan of the IK solution either. Certainly there are alternatives to those two method. I can imagine at least two.

Jim, you mean IK won't let you use products you've bought and paid for?  Isn't that some kind of breach of agreement?  How can they get away with that?  Absurd! 
 
Last time I upgraded my DAW (new CPU), the easiest non-iLok plugins for me to get back up and running (of those with copy protection) were the ones from NI.  I find their system to be very easy.  Waves weren't too bad either, but their scheme isn't exactly simple or bulletproof.
 
As of now, today's iLok debacle is not yet resolved.  Hopefully the fine folks at Softube will consider adopting the copy-protection scheme used by their friends at NI.
 
Cheers,
Eddie
 
 
 

 
sheeez, I just flick the "on" switch on my CL1-B.
 
It just started sounding better too. ;-)

I think I got lucky somehow- all my iLok licenses are working- including ones that other people on Gearslutz are having problems with, Slate, Sonnox, Melodyne