Morpheon posted at 8:04PM Mon, 02 November 2015 - #4236452

Razor42 posted at 11:56PM Sun, 01 November 2015 - #4236449

Also a slight misunderstanding the Daz Content encryption on products only encrypts the DS files (.duf .dsf .dat etc) so things like textures (jpgs) are not encrypted and you're free to use them in other apps even with the DC encryption enabled. So if Daz3D goes away you will only be able to use the encrypted content in the latest build of DS that was available or the unencrypted parts of the content in any app that supports them.

There's no misunderstanding about that: it's been stated clearly and repeatedly that textures won't be encrypted but the DUF/DSF files will. So DS goes down and I have all the materials for one of Stonemason's big sci-fi sets still at my disposal, but the geometry is locked up tight as a drum -- that's a pretty small consolation. At the moment, I'm still just a hobbyist, not a professional artist who earns a living from my artwork. For someone like that, that's not just money out of their pocket for content they now can't use, but possibly lost commissions, broken deadlines, etc. Not the same thing if Poser suddenly breaks and that same artist can switch over to Max or Lightwave or Blender and can use that same asset because it hasn't been encrypted.

DS can't go down under this form of DRM ( It just doesn't work that way), if you have DS installed and unlocked or a backup of of 4.8. your content will always be usable in DS. DAZ3D Content servers and the store in a worse case scenario potentially could go down though. You could just boot up your version of DS and export the items to obj's and begin a Poser "Shudders", Blender, max rebuild. Daz3D is also talking about a Poison Pill worst case scenario that will unlock all encryption as well but that does rely on a little trust.