dreamcutter posted at 11:17AM Tue, 26 January 2016 - #4251304

Male_M3dia posted at 11:13PM Tue, 26 January 2016 - #4251270

EricVM posted at 6:48AM Tue, 26 January 2016 - #4251241 ...

" A post you made to "No encrypted for me." has been removed for making accusations and speculation presented as fact". I won't spend another penny there and I spend a lot of pennies for enjoyment with my 3D hobby.

The thing about this walled garden being ridiculously incorrect (and thus your wild speculation deleted) is that DAZ is in the business of selling content, but they don't make their own; they get it from vendors submitting content to them and bringing more content developers into making content. Also their content gets more support from people at different stores making items for their base content and people supporting it with freebies. So if people can't even save content or get content into DS because it's a "walled garden", please explain how do you expect them to sell brokered content or even submit it for review? Again, they don't make content, they sell it. A walled garden can't happen if they want people to continue to make content for DS. That flawed logic is why those speculations were probably deleted, because they simply make no sense. Never mind that it doesn't even cover those that make freebies and/or their own content and don't want to sell at all. This argument conveniently omits how that comes into play. The encryption comes from the standpoint of DAZ wanted to protect the assets they sell, not locking everything down so they can't even get someone to submit it to them.

Think your thoughts all the way through before you post them.

I read it as the reverse - content exclusive to DS. Perhaps he meant walled garden because of content created by DS and sold at DAZ3D might become encrypted to only work on DS and not other pipeline apps. That significantly reduces the value of the content.

Again, think this through... if you're taking content to other apps, how is that getting there? Obj, CR2, FBX, alembic.. those formats still work, and need to work not only for end users, but for content developers as well because they have pipelines that need to work to get things submitted back to daz and other storefronts. If DAZ is advertising from the home page content for Maya and other apps, then those pipelines won't change because it's being exported to those apps... and many of those apps are necessary for content development because you can't make content within DAZ studio. So once again, the walled garden argument is weak at best. The main problem is the fact that the installers themselves are not protected and it's far to easy for them to be uploaded to sites. DAZ is in business to sell content so if they can get it more places they will. But they still have an obligation to protect their assets as well, so it needs to be a balance as not doing anything except sending out take down notices that no longer work is no longer an option. And if other sites find that their content experiences an increase in theft, don't think they won't look into protecting their interests as well.