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I saw people talking about this a few days ago, and it's honestly both pretty funny and kind of scummy that anyone thought this was a good idea.
The TL;DR is that some furries put an avatar called the Druffle up for sale on Jinxxy for $45. This is fairly normal in the VR space; there are plenty of sites where you can buy someone else's model, customize it, and then upload it to your VRChat account for personal use.
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The issue is that the Unity package came with some pretty questionable DRM. To use the avatar, buyers apparently had to link their Jinxxy account and join a specific Discord server to verify they had actually purchased it. The DRM also had to stay active inside the Unity project, and it only worked on Windows (so if you were working on the avatar on macOS or Linux, you were basically out of luck). On top of that, the DRM was logging users' account information, and the developers later confirmed that it was indeed storing that data. So it wasn't just intrusive in terms of access control; it was also quietly collecting user-related information in the background.
There are some conflicting accounts about whether any of this was clearly disclosed on the original store page. I haven't been able to verify it either way, because furries as a whole are notoriously bad at archiving anything correctly.
The video linked there is the friend of one of the people who worked on it, and they're announcing that they're removing the DRM entirely and wiping the database of information it collected. About 80% of the video is just him complaining about how negatively other furries reacted to it, despite the criticism being pretty understandable when you consider they implemented invasive DRM on a $45 avatar that may not have even been properly disclosed in the first place.
