Razor42 posted at 10:18PM Sun, 01 November 2015 - #4236420

The one point you have made abundantly clear is YOU DON"T LIKE DRM.

And even if that was the ONLY point he was trying to make, it would still be a valid one. I don't fault DAZ and the content creators for wanting to protect their work, but even if the process IS as transparent as DAZ claims it will be (and that's still a big IF -- after that slow-motion train wreck of a store change-over, I'm a little underwhelmed by DAZ's technical capabilities), the very concept of DRM still assumes that the customer is a thief or at least a potential thief, and worse, the customer is expected to pay for the privilege of being treated as one -- that alone is reason enough for me and for many others to oppose it, regardless of how DRM may actually affect our use of any encrypted content (if at all). The products at DAZ are cool, but not cool enough to warrant putting up with that BS.

I'm not upgrading beyond DS4.8, and in fact, I've already scrubbed DS from my machine and I'm in the middle of a Poser content reinstall. DAZ and the content creators who do business through them (even the ones with stores here at Renderosity: Ironman13, DM, Zev0, etc.) won't see another dime from me as long as a single piece of content remains encrypted at DAZ (and I've spent ~$400 a month there for the last several years) -- in fact, unless there's another change at the very top, it's more than likely that I'll never do business with DAZ again, that's how much I hate DRM.