will2power posted at 6:20PM Tue, 26 January 2016 - #4251349

If you want to advocate it, that's fine --I just don't share your assessment of what's going on, and my experience tells me that this is the jumping off point with DAZ studio. It won't be long before the only content allowed to be sold will be encrypted, and what then? At that point they've got you by the short hairs and they can do pretty much anything they want. Since the content's already encrypted, you're one "harmless" update away from being held hostage. Then if they decide to make you pay a subscription fee to export their content, or a per use export fee --what are you going to do then? Or if heaven forbid, DAZ was to go out of business a year or two down the road, what happened to all your content? We just had that happen at work where a vendor of a certain Safety program software shut off it's registration server so there was no way you could re-install the software. When we called them about this -we were encouraged to purchase their "new" software which was three times more expensive and did the exact same thing.When I heard that, we immediately told them that we would no longer be giving them our business and that was that. This is the same thing --you're set up so that you're dependent on DAZ3D and then --like every good pusher will tell you --you jack the price up. Sorry, but I'm not going to stick my head in that noose.

Well that's certainly your prerogative; I certainly don't see the end of the world, especially over digital bikinis ;) And not when I have DVDs, digital video TV shows and movies, songs on my ipod, iphone apps, apps purchased through Apples App Store, digital subcriptions to Adobe, Marvelous Designer, Pixologic etc... and what DAZ is doing is nowhere near that. And none of that stops me from doing what I need to do with my content that i purchased licenses too. People are simply letting their imagination and anger get the best of them and if that's cause for you to leave then good luck in your further endeavors. But I've said it before, once the smoke the misinformation has caused clears, many will be back just like so many things in the past.