If you want to advocate it, that's fine --I just don't share your assessment of what's going on, and my experience tells me that this is the jumping off point with DAZ studio. It won't be long before the only content allowed to be sold will be encrypted, and what then? At that point they've got you by the short hairs and they can do pretty much anything they want. Since the content's already encrypted, you're one "harmless" update away from being held hostage. Then if they decide to make you pay a subscription fee to export their content, or a per use export fee --what are you going to do then? Or if heaven forbid, DAZ was to go out of business a year or two down the road, what happened to all your content? We just had that happen at work where a vendor of a certain Safety program software shut off it's registration server so there was no way you could re-install the software. When we called them about this -we were encouraged to purchase their "new" software which was three times more expensive and did the exact same thing.When I heard that, we immediately told them that we would no longer be giving them our business and that was that. This is the same thing --you're set up so that you're dependent on DAZ3D and then --like every good pusher will tell you --you jack the price up. Sorry, but I'm not going to stick my head in that noose.