Mysterious Avid Issue Knocks Out Mac Pro Workstations Across Hollywood
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Re: Mysterious Avid Issue Knocks Out Mac Pro Workstations Across Hollywood
#2yikes. having written aax plugins for a while, i have to say, i’m kind of surprised this came from AVID. from what it sounds like (having scraped the surface), it’s not their editing software (Pro Tools, et al.) but their copy protection management tool/device driver - iLok.
i’m sure there are some very anxious engineers in the AVID offices today.
Re: Mysterious Avid Issue Knocks Out Mac Pro Workstations Across Hollywood
#3>Film and TV editors across Los Angeles were sweating Monday evening as their workstations were refusing to reboot
The irony of something refusing to reboot in Hollywood. Hopefully the production of Star Wars 12, Rambo 8 and Terminator 9 has not been too disrupted.
Re: Mysterious Avid Issue Knocks Out Mac Pro Workstations Across Hollywood
#4yikes. having written aax plugins for a while, i have to say, i’m kind of surprised this came from AVID. from what it sounds like (having scraped the surface), it’s not their editing software (Pro Tools, et al.) but their copy protection management tool/device driver - iLok. i’m sure there are some very anxious engineers in the AVID offices today.
> their copy protection management tool/device driver - iLok.
They're still using that? These things were successfully cracked in the nineties, I was convinced nobody uses hardware dongles anymore.
Re: Mysterious Avid Issue Knocks Out Mac Pro Workstations Across Hollywood
#5>Film and TV editors across Los Angeles were sweating Monday evening as their workstations were refusing to reboot The irony of something refusing to reboot in Hollywood. Hopefully the production of Star Wars 12, Rambo 8 and Terminator 9 has not been too disrupted.
The rebellion has got to start from somewhere. Humans are still consuming mindless reboots, but the machines have decided it's too much and have given up.
Re: Mysterious Avid Issue Knocks Out Mac Pro Workstations Across Hollywood
#6yikes. having written aax plugins for a while, i have to say, i’m kind of surprised this came from AVID. from what it sounds like (having scraped the surface), it’s not their editing software (Pro Tools, et al.) but their copy protection management tool/device driver - iLok. i’m sure there are some very anxious engineers in the AVID offices today.
> their copy protection management tool/device driver - iLok. They're still using that? These things were successfully cracked in the nineties, I was convinced nobody uses hardware dongles anymore.
yes, they are still an industry standard.
Re: Mysterious Avid Issue Knocks Out Mac Pro Workstations Across Hollywood
#7yikes. having written aax plugins for a while, i have to say, i’m kind of surprised this came from AVID. from what it sounds like (having scraped the surface), it’s not their editing software (Pro Tools, et al.) but their copy protection management tool/device driver - iLok. i’m sure there are some very anxious engineers in the AVID offices today.
> their copy protection management tool/device driver - iLok. They're still using that? These things were successfully cracked in the nineties, I was convinced nobody uses hardware dongles anymore.
Buy your third-gen iLok today for only $49: https://www.avid.com/licenses/ilok
Re: Mysterious Avid Issue Knocks Out Mac Pro Workstations Across Hollywood
#8Sounds unlikely to be a virus. Certificate expiry seems probable if it’s happened suddenly to everyone using this software and dongle.
Re: Mysterious Avid Issue Knocks Out Mac Pro Workstations Across Hollywood
#9yikes. having written aax plugins for a while, i have to say, i’m kind of surprised this came from AVID. from what it sounds like (having scraped the surface), it’s not their editing software (Pro Tools, et al.) but their copy protection management tool/device driver - iLok. i’m sure there are some very anxious engineers in the AVID offices today.
> but their copy protection management tool/device driver - iLok.
Maybe Hollywood will learn that DRM hurts legitimate users.
But they probably won't, I won't be shedding any tears either way.
Re: Mysterious Avid Issue Knocks Out Mac Pro Workstations Across Hollywood
#10yikes. having written aax plugins for a while, i have to say, i’m kind of surprised this came from AVID. from what it sounds like (having scraped the surface), it’s not their editing software (Pro Tools, et al.) but their copy protection management tool/device driver - iLok. i’m sure there are some very anxious engineers in the AVID offices today.
> their copy protection management tool/device driver - iLok
MacOS Catalina makes running kernel extensions hard, they probably were testing new iLok version for Catalina.