Building upon DAZ officials declarations on this thread, past and present DAZ behaviour and what I see in this thread over DAZ (especially the second page), looking at todays coffee stains I predict:

stage 1: CMS up and running in order to download content from DAZ store.

stage 2: stage 1 + CMS up and running in all the buying process, performed using a web interface embedded into Studio.

stage 3: stage 2 + CMS up and running everytime DAZ content is used, because the content itself is encrypted and it is decrypted in memory only during use. At this stage probably Genesis support code is centralized into the CMS. Campaign to force SM to implement a Poser-to-CMS interface for handling Genesis.

stage 4: stage 3 + a centralized CMS infrastructure is implemented in DAZ servers, allowing the deployment of a very light Studio version which accesses that infrastructure. You have your account on DAZ, you buy licences to content, you use it but content itself never leaves DAZ servers. The only things you have your hands on are scene files which contain only parameters for the content. Piracy problem solved once for all.

GIMP 2.7.4, Inkscape 0.48, Genetica 3.6 Basic, FilterForge 3 Professional, Blender 2.61, SketchUp 8, PoserPro 2012, Vue 10 Infinite, World Machine 2.3, GeoControl 2