darken666 posted at 3:34 PM Sat, 19 October 2024 - #4490527

Do you think we're stupid? Obviously there was a subscription element in Connect, because that's exactly what they're using it for. 

Manifestly there wasn't - and indeed they pretty switftly agreed it was a reasonable compromise to have things encrypted for a while (was it a year of six months?) and then make them available unencypted and through DIM. Connect was an anti-piracy measure, as well as a tool to make it easier to install missing content needed for a scene and to reduce the amount of data that needed to be downloaded for an update (just the changed files instead of the whole zip) among other things. But it did need to be able to validate orders to enable decryption on load (which it did by getting the order history from Daz, rather than sending information about isntalled files to Daz), and that provided a tool that could be used for the subscription-linked content with additons to the application (to ask if the user had a sub, plus whatever it uses to know which content is subscription-linked).