I don't see how DAZ's goal can be vendor lock in. It is chiefly a brokerage for other vendors to start with. Are they trying to give their PA's a leg up on others? Pretty obviously since that's what they've been doing for a while. But that's a whole lot different from trying to lock down their ecosystem.

I take their statements at face value. Of course there is going to be connect only content, what would be the point of the whole goat-dance anyway? But at this point, in February all they've put out are trial balloons - the vast majority of new content is still DIM, and what they've sold as connect only has either been given away, or sold at next to nothing.

In hindsight what they probably should have done is implement connect without the DRM to get people used to it, then introduced the DRM later down the road. As it stands, the connect roll out is compromised even if they drop the encryption.

In any case, I'm certainly not through with using DAZ, I like it. I am on the fence about encrypted products, but as long as a steady stream of encrypted comes out I'll deal with that issue later. So those of you with the "sky is falling" complex, please, it is getting old. If you don't want encrypted content, don't buy it. That really is the only thing that will effect the situation.