tsarist posted at 3:16PM Tue, 02 February 2016 - #4252770

diogenese19348 posted at 4:00PM Tue, 02 February 2016 - #4252747

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.

What is getting old is people saying that the sky isn't falling when clearly it has at least dropped a few yards and continues a downward direction.

It doesn't hurt to keep ones eyes open and pay attention because things don't seem to be getting better.

A friend of mine told me that same rot back when I said our local market is collapsing. "It's getting old, it's getting old."

Well, more and more of us aren't working and he's had to sell his nice car for a piece of junk, move out of his nice condo. Now he's writing letters to the senator complaining about the sky that he said wasn't falling a few years back.

My advice is... Go ahead and toss an uninstalled copy of Daz4.9 on the hard drive for safe keeping. Maybe you'll use it, maybe you won't. Don't want encrypted software, don't buy it AND let them know WHY you aren't buying it. We'll all see whether the sky is actually falling or not eventually.

Personally I don't think in this case the sky is falling, but that's beside the point. Your suggestions about not buying encrypted software is the same one I was making. You can keep a copy of 4.8 around, I did, but frankly there isn't anything in 4.9 that is a problem as long as you don't use connect. Telling DAZ why you're not buying encrypted doesn't matter, they don't care, they will care if people don't buy it.

My point is that running around saying "the sky is falling" is not going to stop the sky from falling if it is. Make your preparations for it, but don't go annoying everybody else who isn't. If DAZ really has made up their minds to screw everybody, which I don't think they have, how is screaming on the forums going to help? Any more than it did here about another issue.