ssgbryan posted at 11:23AM Sat, 30 January 2016 - #4252003

Razor42 - the pirates won't crack the product DRM - they will bypass the encryption in Daz Studio.

I love you guys, but vendors are delusional in thinking that piracy = lost sales. The people who download pirated content never had any intention of paying for the products, at ANY price.

It is obvious that DAZ's long-term goal is customer lock-in with a subscription model and/or renting 3d assets. The people that made DAZ great (and Steve Kondris) no longer work at DAZ. The new owners are looking for steady income streams - which CAN NOT be done with DAZ's current sales "structure". This is simple business economics.

Coding-wise, it is a very short step from using DRM content to requiring DRM content. Anyone want to take bets on the next version of genesis (24 months out) being "DAZ-Connect"-only?

Well thanks for your thoughts on the subject ssgbryan,

The funny thing is a good 75% of my comments on this thread relate to the fact that piracy is more than just a monetary loss or lost sales.

Bypassing the encryption is time consuming and as about as efficient for the end receiver as watching the new star wars movie that someone recorded on their mobile phone in the back row of a cinema while eating a bucket of popcorn. As important as what is there, is what is not there.

It is obvious that DAZ's long-term goal is customer lock-in with a subscription model and/or renting 3d assets.

Well that may be obvious to yourself, but I've never actually seen a business model fleshed out for this speculation, that would give any indication that it would be advantageous for Daz 3D to adopt it. But since it's pure speculation I guess that's just a a minor detail. May, may not, Que sera. But in my own opinion it's up there with the likelihood of the construction of a Death Star by Daz3D.

Likewise with the coding wise scenario. The difference between Mein Kampf and the Bible is just the letters are arranged differently. Both are books, but definitely both don't equate to the same thing in any real consideration.

Also just to clarify Daz Connect isn't Daz Encryption, it's a new version of DIM built into DS. You can use Daz Connect without encrypted files also.