Razor42 posted at 1:00AM Mon, 02 November 2015 - #4236471

Forgive me I thought your issue was what happens to your content if Daz3D becomes unviable. Which rational leads to the question of, if you migrate to Poser what happens to your content if SM becomes unviable. I wasn't talking about bottom lines I was talking about risk mitigation.

Also just my opinion but speculating about ways to pirate content is probably inadvisable.

Sorry -- it's storming here pretty good right now, and the power went out briefly.

As far as risk mitigation goes, if SM goes down for good, I will at least have the option of porting what Poser content I can to other apps (Max, C4D, etc.), and LOTS of Poser content is other app compatible (especially if I shop beforehand with the very consideration in mind); on the other hand, if DAZ goes down for good, any DRM content I have is also likely gone for good, because there is absolutely no guarantee that DAZ will or even can distribute a decryption key or unencrypted copies of my content, so the likelihood that ALL OF IT will be gone for good is way better then the likelihood I'll get it in an unencrypted format. It's a guarantee of some recoverable value versus the very real possibility of losing all value, with DAZ on the losing end of that scale.

Not advising people on how to pirate content, merely illustrating the fallacy of DAZ thinking leaving in the ability to export DRM content to other apps will keep their DRM secure. Security experts demonstrate all the time how to take down aircraft, how to rob banks, etc., and they're not thieves or terrorists, nor do they condone or encourage the actions of those who are. The exposures that they do are done in the interest of risk mitigation -- same thing here.