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From: "doctorbudz" <doctorbudz@...>
Date: Sun Mar 24, 2002 6:08pm
Subject: Re: GEN: PACE Copy Protection

One of the funniest things about PACE is that not only is it one of
the most widely used protection systems, it is also one of the most
frequently cracked. In fact, there exists a universal PACE
deprotection software which allows any PACE-protected application to
be deprotected extremely easily.

It is a FACT that if you buy several pieces of PACE-protected
software, it will refuse to work together : quite a staggering flaw
in a protection system that prides itself on being 'the most widely-
used'. I know several people who have been hit by the pain of buying
multiple PACE protected programs.

I think this article on ProRec is superb, and hopefully will
discourage any software company from using this terrible system. I
for one would never buy anything which uses this system, and the more
people who adopt this stance, the sooner this pathetic company will
stop afflicting the world of audio software.

peace


--- In logic-users@y..., "f-erenc szabo" <zerobeat@g...> wrote:
 > There's a great article showing how detestable PACE copy
 > protection is.  I hope Alan Cronce (Pace president) reads it
 > and weeps.  Emagic's copy protection (old and new) is a
 > zillion orders of magnitude better than this. I've had many
 > dozens of problems with PACE crap over the years.
 >
 >
 > Here's one paragraph amongst many:
 >
 > Rip Rowan writes:
 > "I implore PACE to provide responsible copy protection software,
 > or get out of the business. The Interlok product is the worst piece
 > of software I have ever stumbled across in over twenty years of
 > working with computers. It is more virus than application.
Hopefully,
 > any new products that PACE produces will adhere to the guidelines
 > outlined above for unintrusiveness, interoperability, stability,
 > availability,
 > cost-effectiveness, and copy protection effectiveness."
 >
 >
 > For the entire thing, check out:
 >
<www.prorec.com/prorec/articles.nsf/articles/4F0B51C39C17DA6386256B7F0
077FBA6>

 >
 >
 >
 > f-erenc szabo,  smarty pants
 >                         Z+E+R+O+B+E+A+T
 > "NOW POWERED BY THE MIRACLE OF THE TRANSISTOR!"