This has always confused me.  Both from a customer relations and (for iLok) a sales perspective.  Why doesn't iLok allow for your licenses to be backed up on one singular backup?  Especially now with new iLok2 which will hold (I think) 500 licenses.  I know that with your main iLok you can have as many copies of software on as many computers you want but can only use one at a time.  But since most companies today have seen the light and allow for 2, sometimes 3 instances to run concurrently on different computers (i.e. studio desktop and live performance laptop) it seems an opportunity missed by both iLok and their client companies not to provide this service.  First, the client company comes off as fair-minded and decent and, most important, customer oriented.  And iLok sells twice the number of iLoks.  And, unless my math is off, it, at worst, only doubles the instances of the software (which, as I stated above, is what most companies allow anyway) or, more likely, doesn't affect the number of instances in any meaningful statistcal way.  How much piracy is abetted by having a singular working backup iLok?? 

I think their rationale, AFA ILOK,  is that you can purchase a ZERO Down time insurance(which I did, and is cheap) for safety  .and that's the "backup".

With the software vendors,  and as far as two instances on two computers, SURE !!! just buy ANOTHER copy LOL

And why can´t you delete licenses you don´t need? Strange.

And why can´t you delete licenses you don´t need? Strange.

 
Yeah... that annoys me (especially demos)

I'm curious to know if I'm the last person on the planet who absolutely refuses to spend an additional $35 just to be able to run my software. (Never mind that the gizmo probably costs 10 cents to make.) I was all set to buy the Antares Mutator Evo until I saw it required an ilok. Call me hard-headed, but I'm not gonna do it. Not now, not ever.

Jim Roseberry

And why can´t you delete licenses you don´t need? Strange.

 
Yeah... that annoys me (especially demos)

I haven't tried or read about transferring licenses to a new ILOK(like vcc would require) can you pick and choose the licenses to transfer? Just dont transfer the demos?

I'm with you JMA... I absolutely will not now or EVER do it.  If there is something that absolutely requires an ILok or similar device, I'll find another app to use to do that job.  The whole ILok thing is total bullcrap -I've seen so many get broken, lost, whatever and it's always always always a hassle.  Zero downtime??  SURE- if you pay them for a backup of your OWN information......???  anyone see the insanity in that?? 

some companys will allow you to make a softliecence..i did it with cubase..tech support walked me throught it.there elisencer was so confusing i just couldnt take it..i did something in dos i think..i swear i was screwing my computer up totaly..but they assured me i wasnt..it works great now with no lock..thats just cubease

How much piracy is abetted by having a singular working backup iLok??

 
Ol Pal... I completely agree
The only thing I can think to say in response...
How much piracy is abetted by using iLok... period? 
iLok doesn't prevent piracy... it's only an inconvenience to legit users.
That said... If you refuse to use iLok (on principal), you take a lot of nice plugins off the table.
Sic irony...  

Question here...

So I don't know much about iLok, I don't have any software titles that require it so far. But say I were to get an iLok 2... will this hold anything? Like it kind of seems that VSL has their own version of an iLok but says it will work with syncrosoft or something like that, and Cubase has a dongle...

basically will an iLok 2 work for anything that requires a dongle? It would be really annoying to have multiple dongles for different bits of software