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Originally Posted by made
I totally get what you are saying.
I was interested why you think that Avid would make the effort to block this and what their benefit would be.
just to clarify what this usb server is doing. it emulates a hub connected to the macs USB port. for the OS no difference to a directly connected ilok/usb device.
you can't share the USB port, but you can "virtually" unplug a device from one computer and plug it into another.
think of it like a thunderbolt dock. you connect an ilok to a usb port via thunderbolt and you could switch computers without touching the ilok by plugging the thunderbolt cable into the other machine.
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It's what Avid would perceive as a benefit; keeping the 'integrity' of their product intact. That's why they went after SugarBytes and stopped them from selling their aax wrapper. Avid's thing is you move the iLok from machine to machine when you need to change machines. Besides who's to say the micro controller that's being used can't be hacked over the network and made to do things that weren't designed into the original code? Theoretically the code could be rewritten to allow sharing the iLok over many machines at the same time.