Kevin Woolley wrote: > 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. > > I find this idea of putting once head into the sand as worrying. The copybotting started long before the viewer got open sourced. As long the content are being rendered on the client side there will be possibilities and these will be exploited. Several mistakes in the design of stuff making think easier that it need to be have been exposed and fixed in then open source viewers.
The only solutions are om the social level, to make copying content not worth the effort, this involve work on all side. Making it easy to know how made the items, making the originals "affordable". Yes to high prices does make people make copies. People also make copies becasue no-copy items, no-mod items. To lower the rate of copied content we have to work on why people copy. With out that it wil never have any success. There been a nice illustration floating arounf the internet, showing the problems with DRM protections today, mostly on video media. http://www.techxav.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/piratelegal.jpg > 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. > > The removing on the open source viewer will not do anything to help stoping the content copying. Sorry, to tell you this but it will not help. Look at all the other examples around, do they have comtent theft? Yes, Do they have open source viewers? No. Why do you think this would do anything on second life. As long anyone can sell content, it will gets copies in Second life. And if one can't sell it there it will be sold to other places. We have already seen that SL content have been ilicaly moved to different worlds Include the old google one, IMVU or whats it called. I'm sure that blue panet stuff have loots of copied sl content. The fight is against peoples moral and will, this has to change, trying to kill once favorite viewer. Does make the customers your enemy, if the customer turns enemis they are more likely to copy your content. > 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. > The iPhone model is all about content creators, It would turn Second life into Entropia Universe. For me a step towards thats is a step in the wrong direction. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ 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
