I think the misunderstanding comes from the belief that E-On prevent their items from being exported to other applications, full stop. This really isn't the case.

In truth the facility is made for artists to prevent their objects being exported for use in other applications - the choice is with the merchant and not with E-On or C3D, and I think this is often misunderstood.

The idea is to give the OPTION to protect those who wish to prevent their products being used as resources in other products. Why? Because there is value here for protecting the Merchants hard work if they WISH. In the same way a product may be lower priced if it is locked to an application (like the MatchMover version option with V6I), so there is a benefit in a lower priced copy-protected version for some, whilst for others who want the flexibility of exporting for a small additional fee - you have this too.

Not all merchants choose this - for example (please correct if I am wrong), Linda who makes the wonderful "Lush" series does not encrypt her products, and as such this is her choice, and often a big selling point. When you purchase an item at C3D - you choose the Copy Protected or Non Copy Protected items.

The trouble is that I think this misunderstanding may lead to incorrect assumptions about E-On and C3D, so I really hope that people don't misinterpret the reasons for doing this, and that there is always choice at the end of the day.

The only forced encryption per se comes from the items themselves so that purchases only have the right to use what they have purchased, and to prevent items being swapped with friends etc, (which is clearly outside of any products EULA, whether Daz, Renderosity, 3DCommune, Content Paradise, RDNA, etc.)

So - Encryption and Copy Protection do have a legitimate place, but of course people can choose to shop with C3D or not as they wish, but there are some great items to be purchased there (not to mention many free ones too)! >8o)