What is PACE?
PACE is actually the name of a company, Pace Anti Piracy. Their products allegedly “protect” software from illegal copying and distribution. These products are available for Windows and Macintosh systems. There are two primary products. Interlok, and it’s functional twin, InterLok Pro are software-only products. iLok is a software/hardware combination that uses a programmable USB dongle to store authorization keys for software that uses it. Many audio processing software companies use Pace for their DAW and plug-ins. These companies clearly think that without the “protection” provided by Pace, that audio engineers are recording studios will not pay for the software. They have probably learned this the hard way. Which is very sad, since the whole point of using audio processing/recording/editing software is to make great music, which is itself software. If anyone in the universe should understand that theft of software is bad, it should be musicians and audio engineers. Sigh. The dongle
