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I am in the same boat as MissFortune with this.Spoken like a true sheep.
It's not a matter of thinking DAZ is nefarious or that someone is waiting there to pillage our personal data. It's a matter of refusing to move with the herd and passively accepting the new "norm" of having to be permanently connected to some companies cloud server.
I can't speak for Xol's background or intentions in detail, but I get the feeling he shares my view on the erosion of privacy in today's world. Our "holy data" as you put it, is in fact the currency that the internet runs on these days. Meta data is collected about everything. And if you think that just because a company like DAZ has good intentions and doesn't misuse that data, then nothing bad will ever happen - then you are naive. Extremely naive.
It's all a numbers game. In my trade, we would call this a Risk Evaluation. One piece of software having open access to our PC is acceptable and very very low risk (IE: Windows and other essential packages you need to use a PC) Having two is still low risk (You just added Steam or some other game launcher) Three is still low risk but less so... you get it? Every time to allow more companies and more pieces of software to access your home network, then the risk increases for some sort of "bad event". it could be a data breach. It could be a virus in a patch or update. It could be full on identity theft or doxxing. Heck, it could be DAZ being bought out by some other company and the first update they push scans your PC for assets and crosses them with their purchase records and if they find a mismatch, your Studio gets bricked. Shit like that has happened before.
It doesn't even have to be such a negative event. It could be something as simple as one program's "cloud" client that runs in your PC's background having bad interactions with another piece of software, also running on your PC. Because company X doesn't give a shit about company Y and therefore they never worked with them to avoid conflicts. Meanwhile, your DAZ coughs up a hairball right at the end of that marathon 3 hour render.
This is supposed to be a pirate site and sometimes I think it's just full of posers, lol.
I've been doing this stuff since the days I used to put my phone's handset in a set of cuffs to get a whopping 300 baud dialup, so I could set my Atari to War-Dial overnight and explore the hits I got the next morning. I used to hack C-band and KU band sats with pirate receivers and programmable key cards. I've built android boxes with XBMC/KODI to stream everything I ever wanted.
It goes against my DNA to allow any company to have access to my computers 24/7.
You wanna participate with all the whistles and bells, you got to accept that you part of the current (and probably future) environment.
If you want to be save, just disconnect from the internet. Piece of mind.
We were talking about DAZ and i don't think that DAZ really collects your library. They sell assets but i don't think they care what you have.
And i don't even use a cloud.
I don't really use Steam. It's a choice really. You don't have to but decide to use it anyway and then look for a way out. You can't eat a cake and complain later.
People complain but use Smartphones where you surely are tracked and listened. To me that's wishful thinking or an excuse.
I am not even sure if there is a cracked version of DAZ. How do crack a free software? My concern would be, do i trust a cracker? But that you have to make up with yourself. To me it's more trading one thing for another where you are not in charge at all.