Morpheon posted at 9:32PM Mon, 02 November 2015 - #4236475

Razor42 posted at 1:18AM Mon, 02 November 2015 - #4236472

Though no content 'period' works in a bricked Poser including your own files.

A six month window to get up to speed with a new app with whatever content you can port versus no window and all your content encrypted and someone else holding the key? Is that even really a choice?

Unless of course daz3d are true to there word and remove the encryption in worst case scenario or an enterprising programmer can script a decrypter for the files in the event the licensing preventing that is void. ( If that worst case happened to DAZ3D)

Gee -- wouldn't that be a form of piracy? Because if someone else WERE to take possession of DAZ's servers, they'd also likely retain the rights to the content on it. And anyways, isn't that probably what's going to happen here in the next few weeks or months? Some enterprising individual is going to start posting hacked copies of DS with the encryption spoofed or bypassed in such a way that DS either doesn't bother looking for an encryption key or thinks that all keys (or even no keys) are still good keys. Then, once they figure out how to copy and distribute the files of any piece of encrypted content, anyone with a copy will be able to use that content with a defanged version of DS. That is, IF they don't figure out a way to simply decrypt the content itself.

If any of this is true, where does it leave your issues/fears with the changes?

It's not piracy if the license is void. If someone else takes over your content will still be available right?

Also the DS hack would need to be reinstituted and circulated with each DS update which would be quite often and Daz3D could counter the hack method with each build.