LaurieA posted at 3:27PM Mon, 30 November 2015 - #4241631

FWIW, I DON'T like my stuff being stored in the cloud IF I can't download it to my own hard drive and use it from said hard drive. It sounds like this is not the case with the new Daz DRM. Sounds like to me the stuff still lives on your hard drive but also stays in the cloud for when and if you need it. DRM I don't mind so long as my use of it is invisible to me while I'm using it. Sounds like this is also the case with Daz DRM. I'll be watching over the next weeks while this all fleshes out, but if everything is how I understand it right now, I don't have a problem with it.

How hard will the DRM be on vendors? Will one need to be a "Daz insider" to defeat the DRM in order to make products easier? I make freebies, so it's a question I'd really like an answer to. Will the DRM in any way hamper ones ability to create and distribute morphs and/or other products like clothing generation and so forth?

Laurie

The "cloud" element is no more cloudy than DIM -the main difference is that with the new system you get only the changed files with an update, instead of having to download the full product, which is a boon for those of us with capped bandwidth.

The new beta isn't encrypting content that is available through DIM (which is all of it, currently) though once there is Connect-only content that will still be encrypted. The new beta has also added the ability to drag from the CMS-based views to a file based view (DAZ Studio Formats) to create a shortcut to the content that you can move around as you wish.

The encryption won't generally interfere with content creation - the Transfer Utility still works, you can still bridge or export OBJs for morph-creation and save as (unencrypted) morph assets and so on. I'm not sure, off-hand, that there will be ways in which it might interfere but I'll leave the weaselly "generally" as insurance.