I own three Sims in SL, that's ~$600 a month or so to the Lindens, and that's supported off DRM'ed content creation that I sell. If my income was to vanish because of widespread content theft then I'd be out of SL.
I find Hax's attitude extremely concerning. In fact I think we should now recognise that Open Sourcing the viewer has been a mistake, and the Lindens should close it off again, possibly replacing it with controlled licensed development. As a professional developer who regularly makes use of Open Source, and has contributed on occasion I am philosophically completely in favour of Open Source wherever appropriate. Indeed that's why I subscribed to this list in the first place. However in the case of SL the vitality of the world is primarily due to its resident-created content, without which it is nothing. It's undoubtedly true the various community viewers have contributed greatly to SL, that contribution is a minute fraction compared to the contribution of content providers in-world. Consequently if we are now reaching a point where a choice needs to be made between protecting in-world content and the desire to open source the viewer then there really is no choice - Open Source must be sacrificed. I see no reason why the Lindens could not adopt some for iPhone like model for development of the viewer. Certainly from what I read here the Lindens need to stop apologising and impose some sort of controlled gateway model urgently. Kevin -----Original Message----- From: opensource-dev-boun...@lists.secondlife.com [mailto:opensource-dev-boun...@lists.secondlife.com] On Behalf Of New Hax Sent: 14 March 2010 22:19 To: Marine Kelley Cc: opensource-dev@lists.secondlife.com Subject: Re: [opensource-dev] oh give me a break then what are you doing on an opensource list if you want your content wrapped in DRM. sl will die if its not open. and you can't compare rl doors to the internet. if you dont lock your rl door I can come in and take something of yours that isnt replaceable. but on the internet as a content maker you can make INFINITE products so you arent losing anything if i copy it and make no money off of it. On 3/14/10, Marine Kelley <marinekel...@gmail.com> wrote: > well I am a content creator, content theft is a problem to me, it is tied to > IP rights which are a legal issue. And I am not one of those who say > "content theft is inevitable, let's not do anything about it". Doors can be > lock picked, that's not a reason for me to leave my door wide open. > > > On 14 March 2010 23:04, New Hax <newh...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 3/14/10, Marine Kelley <marinekel...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Err... Content theft has always been a problem, will always be a >> > problem, >> > and LL better be on the same page with developers, content makers and >> > customers here. >> >> content theft isn't a problem, never has been a problem, and is the >> nature of the internet and digital things. if content makers are >> worried about content "theft" then they shouldn't be on SL. because >> its inevitable and cant be stopped. >> > _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
