Razor42 posted at 5:42PM Sun, 08 November 2015 - #4237454

pendraia posted at 4:50PM Sun, 08 November 2015 - #4237448

[Razor42]> It's been for the most part pure speculation over potential negative future direction (however unlikely), worst case scenario's and viewpoints of generalised DRM as a whole (Not Daz Encryption specific). With very little actual experience driven feedback.

Many, myself included, don't do betas. So the only way we can get answers to our questions is to ask. When the answers aren't clear it fuels speculation..

That's mostly true and I do believe that is what is fuelling a lot of the speculation about in this case.

But it is a fact that we live in a world full of uncertainties. And in a lot of cases it's hard to provide an absolute answer. It really comes down to likelihoods and risk assessment in most case examples. Which most will need to assess on their own.

Ask yourself: Will it rain tomorrow? Will a meteor hit the planet? Will I win the lottery? Will my plane crash? Do I have an undiagnosed heart defect?

All of these have a risk factor or likelihood associated. All of them are potentially possible. We each make millions of decisions each day that have an inherent risk association in even something so simple as crossing a road. If you stood on the side of the road and calculated the amount of risk in doing so it's likely you would ever actually cross as so many things could go wrong from a drunk driver running the light, a malfunctioning traffic light right or even as simple as a footwear malfunction. Yet most people still cross the road relatively stress free and live to tell the tale.

Some cases, I am seeing are like saying "Can you guarantee that I will always cross the road safely?" and there is only one actual answer possible "No I cannot guarantee you will" most people accept that as a known risk and act to mitigate and move on. Others may see that as an indication that is in fact unsafe to cross the road and highly likely to lead to misadventure and refuse to do so from that point. Yet if someone said to me "Are you crazy? You could die crossing that road." I would in turn do my own risk assessment and if I found that the risk was low and there was no actual foundation for being afraid to cross that road on that ocassion. I would cross the road and probably think that the person was a little irrational. If the next day I seen them wearing a placard and handing out flyers saying crossing the road is the biggest threat to mankind I would definitely think it's time for the white jackets to do a pickup. In the case of crossing the road we all know the hazard that creates the risk and we are taught from an early age the ways of mitigating that risk. Look both ways etc etc. Most in turn see the risk as very low, yet people do die most days doing just that.

And while it may seem like I'm just rambling, which wouldn't be unusual, my point is there are some about that are actually inflating the risk to levels where it comes across as unreasonable speculation bordering on disinformation. Almost to the point it's like saying "Did you know you can get AIDS from using windows computers? I seen a report the other day about the danger of computer viruses and a large percent are infected, so if I was you I wouldn't take any chances." how do you answer a statement like that?

Questions are always welcome and most here will do their best to provide answers or at least opinions.

And to answer my own questions: Will it rain tomorrow? Maybe. Will a meteor hit the planet? Possibly. Will I win the lottery? Possible but unlikely. Will my plane crash? Also possible but unlikely. Do I have an undiagnosed heart defect? I'll ask my doctor and get his opinion.

lol...some even say I'll wait and see if there are any cars coming, check and then cross. Which is my stance at the moment. I'm unsure how this will pan out so I'll take my time before trying and see what feedback others who are more willing to take risks have to say.

In regards to lottery winning both my sister-in-laws have won large lottery wins so definitely possible. ; )

From reading this thread I'd say you're right there are lots of opinions stated without having all the facts but sometimes we have to develop opinions without having the facts as you stated above.

I think the thing to remember is that more than one opinion can be valid when viewed from the perspective of the person holding that opinion. Vendors like yourself would have a very different viewpoint of Daz than someone who is a hobbyist. Doesn't make either viewpoint wrong just from different perspectives. There was even a subject on this when I did my teaching course called multiliteracies.

I would imagine that understanding a customers perspective would help a vendor to improve how they market their products but not being a vendor myself that's only an opinion and could be proved wrong. I do know though that I feel for vendors who have to deal with piracy of their products as I understand that for many the income is what supports them and their families. I do have doubts though about the effectiveness of the measures that Daz is thinking about using.

Also as a teacher I'm very passionate that we can all learn and to see Daz Connect promoted because Daz are saying that users can't find content strikes me as being the wrong thing to do on many levels. We were all new to this at one point and we all had to learn how to install and find content. I worry that Daz Connects long term impact will be to lower the skill level of the community.

As you can see I have a number of concerns ranging from my own use e.g. Can I edit files in Notepad ++ to the whole pedagogy behind the move.

edited to fix grammar...sorry brain dead after writing reports all day.