I think when DAZ introduced Connect and DRM, their marketing people blundered badly. First, they conflated the two features, leading people to believe that they would have to use DRM'd stuff if they downloaded using Connect. But worse, some foolish marketing person seems to have thought 'the cloud' was a positive and attractive buzzword, even though it was technically inaccurate; and people inferred, not unreasonably, from this usage that Connect was an always-on phone-home you-don't-really-possess-the-stuff-you-bought disaster in the making. By the time DAZ did damage control and stopped using 'cloud' and made the effort to correct people's misconceptions, the damage was done.

'DRM' is kind of misleading, too. It's really just encryption. But I still don't buy any encrypted products. I can wait a year.